On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote: > On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote: >> >> >> *From:*Bobby Jacob >> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM >> *To:* gluster-users at gluster.org <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org> >> *Subject:* Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes. >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> What would be the various options to backup gluster volumes. The >> bricks are created with xfs filesystems. I?ve gone through the >> concepts of xfsdump concept. Can we schedule daily incremental backups >> of the gluster volume or bricks. ?? >> >> >> >> What about restoring the bricks or volumes. ? >> > > I wouldn't make backups under glusterfs. In theory it should work, but > there are too many critical points in the system. > > For example you need to stop every transaction (in case of VMs, then all > of them) to make consistent snapshots. > If you have multiple bricks, all of them has to be snapshotted at the > same time....etc. > In addition restoring would be nightmare. > > IMHO, it's a crazy idea. > > > tamas > > ui.: I use dirvish (rsync based backup solution) and it works fine, > though cluster side snapshotting feature would help a lot. > > http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/snapshot > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Regards, Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)
