[Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

[Tamas Papp]

On 09/02/2013 08:52 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
> On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote:
>> On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote:
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>>>
>>> *From:*Bobby Jacob
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM
>>> *To:* gluster-users at gluster.org <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>> *Subject:* Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> What would be the various options to backup gluster volumes. The
>>> bricks are created with xfs filesystems. I’ve gone through the
>>> concepts of xfsdump concept. Can we schedule daily incremental backups
>>> of the gluster volume or bricks. ??
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> What about restoring the bricks or volumes. ?
>>>
>> I wouldn't make backups under glusterfs. In theory it should work, but
>> there are too many critical points in the system.
>>
>> For example you need to stop every transaction (in case of VMs, then all
>> of them) to make consistent snapshots.
>> If you have multiple bricks, all of them has to be snapshotted at the
>> same time....etc.
>> In addition restoring would be nightmare.
>>
>> IMHO, it's a crazy idea.
>>
>>
>> tamas
>>
>> ui.: I use dirvish (rsync based backup solution) and it works fine,
>> though cluster side snapshotting feature would help a lot.
>>
>>
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/snapshot

Yes, I know about that, unfortunately it's not ready yet:

3 Current status

  No support availabe for snap'ing a glusterfs volume



tamas
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