[Gluster-devel] [POC] disaster recovery: reconstruct all shards

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

Which caveats?
Anyway, having this recovery tool integrated in gluster could be an
appreciable plus to guarantee data recovery natively

Il 27 feb 2017 6:02 AM, "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com> ha
scritto:

> It should be possible to write a script that stitches the different pieces
> of a single file together
> (although with a few caveats).
>
> -Krutika
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta <
> gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would be possible to add a command to use in case of disaster recovery
>> (where everything is broken) to recreate files from sharding ?
>>
>> In example, let's assume a totally down cluster. no trusted pools and
>> so on but sysadmin knows which hdd is part of any distributed replica:
>>
>> hdd1 + hdd2 + hdd3 are distributed and replicated to hdd4 + hdd5 + hdd6
>>
>> a CLI could traverse hdd1,hdd2,hdd3 and reconstruct all shards
>> creating the original, unsharded file.
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