<div dir="ltr">Good point Diego. Thanks!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Diego Remolina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dijuremo@gmail.com" target="_blank">dijuremo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Not so fast, 3.8.4 is the latest if you are using official RHEL rpms<br>
from Red Hat Gluster Storage, so support for that should go through<br>
your Red Hat subscription. If you are using the community packages,<br>
then yes, you want to update to a more current version.<br>
<br>
Seems like the latest is: 3.8.4-44.el7<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Diego<br>
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Ben Werthmann <<a href="mailto:ben@apcera.com">ben@apcera.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> First, please note that gluster 3.8 is EOL and that 3.8.4 is rather old in<br>
>> the 3.8 release, 3.8.15 is the current (and probably final) release of 3.8.<br>
>><br>
>> "With the release of GlusterFS-3.12, GlusterFS-3.8 (LTM) and<br>
>> GlusterFS-3.11 (STM) have reached EOL. Except for serious security issues no<br>
>> further updates to these versions are forthcoming. If you find a bug please<br>
>> see if you can reproduce it with 3.10 or 3.12 and<br>
>> file a BZ if appropriate."<br>
>> <a href="http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/packaging/2017-August/000363.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.gluster.org/<wbr>pipermail/packaging/2017-<wbr>August/000363.html</a><br>
>><br>
>> Gluster 3.12 includes '#1428061: Halo Replication feature for AFR<br>
>> translator' which was introduced in 3.11. See Halo Replication feature in<br>
>> AFR has been introduced for a summary. 3.11 is EOL, best to use 3.12 (long<br>
>> term release) if this is of interest to you.<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Sunil Aggarwal <<a href="mailto:sunchill.06@gmail.com">sunchill.06@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi,<br>
>>><br>
>>> What is the preferred way of taking glusterfs backup?<br>
>>><br>
>>> I am using Glusterfs 3.8.4.<br>
>>><br>
>>> We've configured gluster on thick provisioned LV in which 50% of the VG<br>
>>> is kept free for the LVM snapshot.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Gluster Volume Snapshots require each brick to have it's own thin LV. Only<br>
>> thin LVs are supported with volume snapshots.<br>
>><br>
>> Gluster snapshots do not provide a recovery path in the event of<br>
>> catastrophic loss of a Gluster volume.<br>
>><br>
>> - Gluster Volume Snapshots provide point-in-time recovery for a healthy<br>
>> Gluster Volume. A restore will reset the entire volume to a previous<br>
>> point-in-time recovery point. Granular recovery may be performed with admin<br>
>> intervention.<br>
>> - User Serviceable Snapshots exposes Gluster Volume Snapshots via the<br>
>> .snaps directory in every directory of the mounted volume. Please review<br>
>> documentation for requirements specific to each protocol used to access the<br>
>> gluster volume.<br>
>><br>
>>><br>
>>> is it any different then taking snapshot on a thin provisioned LV?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> If you don't want Gluster Volume Snapshots, and are just looking to backup<br>
>> the current state of a volume, Gluster offers a number of features to<br>
>> recover from catastrophic loss of a Gluster volume.<br>
>><br>
>> - Simple method: mount the gluster volume and run your backup utility of<br>
>> choice<br>
>> - glusterfind generates a file list (full and incremental) for passing to<br>
>> another utility to generate a backup. See:<br>
>> <a href="http://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/GlusterFS%20Tools/glusterfind/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://docs.gluster.org/en/<wbr>latest/GlusterFS%20Tools/<wbr>glusterfind/</a><br>
>> <a href="https://milindchangireblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/why-glusterfind/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://milindchangireblog.<wbr>wordpress.com/2016/10/28/why-<wbr>glusterfind/</a><br>
>> <a href="http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-August/032219.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.gluster.org/<wbr>pipermail/gluster-users/2017-<wbr>August/032219.html</a><br>
>> - Geo-replication provides a distributed, continuous, asynchronous, and<br>
>> incremental replication service from one site to another over Local Area<br>
>> Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and the Internet. (taken from<br>
>> RedHat doc)<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Please see docs for additional info about each of the above:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.2/pdf/administration_guide/Red_Hat_Gluster_Storage-3.2-Administration_Guide-en-US.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/<wbr>documentation/en-us/red_hat_<wbr>gluster_storage/3.2/pdf/<wbr>administration_guide/Red_Hat_<wbr>Gluster_Storage-3.2-<wbr>Administration_Guide-en-US.pdf</a><br>
>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Thanks,<br>
>>> Sunil Aggarwal<br>
>>> <a href="tel:844-734-5346" value="+18447345346">844-734-5346</a><br>
>>><br>
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