[Gluster-users] It necessary make backup the .glusterfs directory ?

[Vlad Kopylov]

In my experience .glusterfs is easily recoverable by going to the
brick path (if you have files there) and running stat for each object
but through mount point, something like:
cd BRICKPATH
sudo find . -path ./.glusterfs -prune -o -exec stat 'MUNTPATH/{}' \;

for example, if you need to recreate or create another volume - delete
.glusterfs and reset brick folder attr, and proceed with below trick
export brick_path=/main/brick4/geo0
sudo setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id $brick_path
sudo setfattr -x trusted.gfid $brick_path
sudo rm -rf $brick_path/.glusterfs

files go nowhere - and they are everywhere you replicate them with Gluster

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:44 PM, César E. Portela
<cportela at santafe.gov.ar> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have two glusterfs servers and doing the backup of these is very slow,
> when it does not fail.
> I have thousand and thousand and thousand files...
>
> Apparently the directory .glusterfs has some responsibility for the backup
> failure.
>
> Is necessary to make a backup of the .glusterfs directory?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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