[Gluster-users] accessing snapshot from client

[Maged Mokhtar]

Thank you very much for this

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/2014 01:24 AM, Maged Mokhtar wrote:
>
>> i am trying to use snapshot feature using gluster 3.6.1, i am not sure
>> how i can make the client see the snapshot.
>>
>> i created a replica volume on 2 servers, the bricks were mounted from
>> thin lvm volumes:
>> gluster vol create gvol1 replica 2
>> storage1:/gluster-server/mount1/brick1
>> storage2:/gluster-server/mount1/brick1
>>
>> i also created a snapshot:
>> gluster snapshot create gvol1-snap1  gvol1
>>
>> it returns success, i can see the snapshot using:
>> gluster snapshot list
>> gluster snapshot info gvol1-snap1  ( shows Status started )
>> gluster snapshot status gvol1-snap1  ( Shows brick path
>> /var/run/gluster/snaps/XX on both storage servers )
>>
>> i can also see the snapshot with preserved data mounted in
>> /var/run/gluster/snaps/XX
>>
>> 1) Now how do i access this snapshot from a client ? if i try to run
>> mount -t glusterfs storage1:gvol1-snap1 /gluster-client/gvol1-snap1
>> this does not work, it does not give an error but the mount is empty
>>
>> 2) i also tried using uss ( user servicable snapshots )
>> gluster volume set gvol1 features.uss enable
>> returned success but i do not see the .snap dirs in my main mount.
>>
>
> The section on accessing snapshots in admin guide [1] might be useful to
> get this going.
>
> -Vijay
>
> [1] https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/
> admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md
>
>
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