[Gluster-infra] Backup strategy for our infrastructure?

[Justin Clift]

On 01/09/2014, at 5:56 PM, Louis Zuckerman wrote:
> Ok I enabled scheduled image creation for all the cloud servers.

Thanks, that's awesome. :)


> For some reason a few servers asked me what time of day to take the snapshot, but not how long to retain them.  For everything else I wasn't asked the time of day, and was only asked for retention period.  No idea why that is.

Yeah, that's strange. We'll probably figure it out as we get more
hands on experience with this stuff.


> Also noteworthy, the images only capture the system disk, not any attached block storage.  So that's pretty sad.

:(


> Here's details for all the systems:
> 
> backups.c.g.o - 7 day schedule

The only useful stuff on there is attached block storage, under /storage. ;)


> download.g.o - only let me pick time of day, not retention
> freebsd0.c.g.o - 7 day, warned that attached storage won't be imaged, only system disk
> g4s* - 7 day
> gfs-rackspace-f20-1 - 7 day, warned that attached storage won't be imaged, only system disk
> gluster-mirror2 - only let me pick time of day, not retention
> gluster-swift2 - 7 day
> gluster.com-mirror1 - only let me pick time of day, not retention
> netbsd0 - 7 day, warned that attached storage won't be imaged, only system disk
> netbsd7-gfs2 - 7 day
> slave* - 7 day, warned that attached storage won't be imaged, only system disk
> staging - 7 day
> tiny - 7 day
> www.g.o - 7 day

This is a good start. :)

+ Justin


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