Added gluster-users. Thanks and Regards, Kotresh H R ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kotresh Hiremath Ravishankar" <khiremat@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 3:03:08 PM > Subject: [Gluster-devel] Using geo-replication as backup solution using gluster volume snapshot! > > Hi All, > > Here is the idea, we can use geo-replication as backup solution using gluster > volume > snapshots on slave side. One of the drawbacks of geo-replication is that it's > a > continuous asynchronous replication and would not help in getting the last > week's or > yesterday's data. So if we use gluster snapshots at the slave end, we can use > the > snapshots to get the last week's or yesterday's data making it a candidate > for a > backup solution. The limitation is that the snapshots at the slave end can't > be > restored as it will break the running geo-replication. It could be mounted > and > we have access to data when the snapshots are taken. It's just a naive idea. > Any suggestions and use cases are worth discussing:) > > > Thanks and Regards, > Kotresh H R > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
