[Gluster-devel] Backup support for GlusterFS

[Joseph Fernandes]

Hi Aravinda,

Venky, Kotresh and me had a discussion on "Data Maintenance infrastructure" that will help 
Data maintenance services like Data Tiering, Bitrot, Backup, dedupe etc to identify the data(file/directory) set
to work on using sequential notification service or non-sequential recording Data Store service.

Today as part of the data tiering project I have the non-sequential recording data store ready that will give you a list of 
file that are hotter/colder (both read/write). i,e in your scenario files that have change from the last backup. But this is just a part of the solution.
As far as I know,  Venky is going to come up with a elaborate document on this soon.

On the NDMP side I have few question for you,
1) Are you planning to develop our own NDMP Tape and Data Service from the scratch? 
2) Or are you planning to use a well established  3rd party NDMP Tape and Data Service? Well that case we need to give the list of files that need to be backup
to such a software.

Regards,
Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aravinda" <avishwan at redhat.com>
To: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 5:40:53 PM
Subject: [Gluster-devel] Backup support for GlusterFS

Hi,

We are trying to implement backup support for GlusterFS. Many Network 
backup utilities like Bacula(open source), Amanda(open source), Symantec 
NetBackup support NDMP(http://www.ndmp.org/). Comparison is available 
here http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=comparisons

Plan is to create glusterfs-ndmp-server, which utilizes glusterfs 
changelogs to detect changes for incremental backup. Design is not yet 
finalized, Comments & Suggestions Welcome.

Looks like a project(https://forge.gluster.org/ndmp-server) in 
forge.gluster is discontinued.

PS: NDMP support is not available in Open Source editions of Bacula and 
Amanda, but available in Enterprise Editions.

References:
-----------
1. NDMP support in NetBackup 
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC6456
2. NDMP Presentation 
http://www.ndmp.org/download/sdk_v4/ndmp-overview-r2.ppt
3. NDMP website http://www.ndmp.org/
4. Bacula and Amanda website http://bacula.org/ and http://www.amanda.org/

--
regards
Aravinda
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