[Gluster-users] Advise needed on backup solution with Gluster astarget

[Maik Kulbe]

Everything you need to know about hard links is in the documentation: http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Arch/Glusterfs_Hard_Links

But I think the solution mostly depends on your workload.. What will be backed up? Small or large files? Rotations for the backups? What access do the backup clients have to the backup target? What is the tech on the client? SAN? Local disks?

-----Original Mail-----
From: Fred van Zwieten [fvzwieten at vxcompany.com]
Sent: 27.08.13 - 20:30:53
To: gluster-users at gluster.org [gluster-users at gluster.org]

Subject: [Gluster-users] Advise needed on backup solution with Gluster astarget

> Hi,
> I have a need to build a backup solution using a distribution gluster
> volume as the target. I am looking at rsnapshot (www.rsnapshot.org). This
> solution depends heavily on hardlinks on the target. Is this a problem on
> glusterfs? If so, what would be a better solution?
> Fred
> Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief
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