[Gluster-infra] Backup strategy for our infrastructure?

Louis Zuckerman me at louiszuckerman.com
Tue Sep 2 18:41:30 UTC 2014


Good point.  The clone would have had the agent too but maybe it needed to
be reconfigured. I'll try that.
On Sep 2, 2014 9:34 AM, "Justin Clift" <justin at gluster.org> wrote:

> On 01/09/2014, at 4:43 AM, Louis Zuckerman wrote:
> <snip>
> > As far as I can tell files can only be restored to the original backed
> up machine, which is inconvenient.
>
> It could be that files can be restored to any VM which the agent is
> running on (and is in our account).
>
> Looking at the Backup tab in Rackspace, your sonar VM has been backing
> up ok for a few days now.  So, because the agent on it has been through
> the backup process at least once, the Rackspace backup stuff is aware
> of that server and is presenting it as a restore target.
>
> At a guess, after the other servers have run through the backup
> process at least once they might show up as restore targets as well.
>
> Guess we'll find out tomorrow. :)
>
> + Justin
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