[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design

Sobhan Samantaray ssamanta at redhat.com
Wed May 7 15:42:33 UTC 2014


I think its a good idea to include the auto-remove of the snapshots based on the time or space as threshold as mentioned in below link.

http://www.howtogeek.com/110138/how-to-back-up-your-linux-system-with-back-in-time/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anand Subramanian" <ansubram at redhat.com>
To: "Paul Cuzner" <pcuzner at redhat.com>
Cc: gluster-devel at gluster.org, "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>, "Anand Avati" <aavati at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 7:50:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design

Hi Paul, that is definitely doable and a very nice suggestion. It is just that we probably won't be able to get to that in the immediate code drop (what we like to call phase-1 of the feature). But yes, let us try to implement what you suggest for phase-2. Soon :-) 

Regards, 
Anand 

On 05/06/2014 07:27 AM, Paul Cuzner wrote: 



Just one question relating to thoughts around how you apply a filter to the snapshot view from a user's perspective. 

In the "considerations" section, it states - "We plan to introduce a configurable option to limit the number of snapshots visible under the USS feature." 
Would it not be possible to take the meta data from the snapshots to form a tree hierarchy when the number of snapshots present exceeds a given threshold, effectively organising the snaps by time. I think this would work better from an end-user workflow perspective. 

i.e. 
.snaps 
\/ Today 
+-- snap01_20140503_0800 
+-- snap02_ 20140503_ 1400 
> Last 7 days 
> 7-21 days 
> 21-60 days 
> 60-180days 
> 180days 







From: "Anand Subramanian" <ansubram at redhat.com> 
To: gluster-devel at nongnu.org , "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> 
Cc: "Anand Avati" <aavati at redhat.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 3 May, 2014 2:35:26 AM 
Subject: [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design 

Attached is a basic write-up of the user-serviceable snapshot feature 
design (Avati's). Please take a look and let us know if you have 
questions of any sort... 

We have a basic implementation up now; reviews and upstream commit 
should follow very soon over the next week. 

Cheers, 
Anand 

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