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

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote:
> On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote:
>>  
>>
>> *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


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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)