On 09/02/2013 08:52 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > 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 Yes, I know about that, unfortunately it's not ready yet: 3 Current status No support availabe for snap'ing a glusterfs volume tamas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130902/05270272/attachment.html>
