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

[Tamas Papp]

Why would you not be able to backup anything? Could you elaborate, what you mean?
What do you want to do actually? Maybe we are talking about different things...

tamas

On 09/02/2013 09:54 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote:
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> So is it assumed within the community that we can setup a gluster volume, but we cannot 
> backup/restore anything. ? Nothing of this sort is being done now. ?
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> Thanks & Regards,
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> *Bobby Jacob*
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> P*SAVE TREES**. *Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.**
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> *From:*gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Tamas Papp
> *Sent:* Monday, September 02, 2013 10:10 AM
> *To:* rejy at redhat.com
> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.
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> On 09/02/2013 08:52 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
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>     On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote:
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>         On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote:
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>             *From:*Bobby Jacob
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>             *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM
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>             *To:*gluster-users at gluster.org  <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>  <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>  <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>
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>             *Subject:* Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.
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>             Hi,
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>             What would be the various options to backup gluster volumes. The
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>             bricks are created with xfs filesystems. I've gone through the
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>             concepts of xfsdump concept. Can we schedule daily incremental backups
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>             of the gluster volume or bricks. ??
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>             What about restoring the bricks or volumes. ?
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>         I wouldn't make backups under glusterfs. In theory it should work, but
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>         there are too many critical points in the system.
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>         For example you need to stop every transaction (in case of VMs, then all
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>         of them) to make consistent snapshots.
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>         If you have multiple bricks, all of them has to be snapshotted at the
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>         same time....etc.
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>         In addition restoring would be nightmare.
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>         IMHO, it's a crazy idea.
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>         tamas
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>         ui.: I use dirvish (rsync based backup solution) and it works fine,
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>         though cluster side snapshotting feature would help a lot.
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>     http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/snapshot
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> Yes, I know about that, unfortunately it's not ready yet:
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> 3 Current status
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>   No support availabe for snap'ing a glusterfs volume
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> tamas
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