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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I have 2 servers running gluster. Each server has 1 brick each which is part of a replica-volume. Data is getting replicated onto both the bricks.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How to backup data from the bricks. ??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How to backup all gluster configurations. ??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Why I ask this is, we are using this deployment for saving user files. The application allots 1GB quota for each user as his personal workspace. Ofcourse, we
would want to backup the data. !!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bobby Jacob<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Tamas Papp [mailto:tompos@martos.bme.hu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 02, 2013 11:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bobby Jacob<br>
<b>Cc:</b> rejy@redhat.com; gluster-users@gluster.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why would you not be able to backup anything? Could you elaborate, what you mean?<br>
What do you want to do actually? Maybe we are talking about different things...<br>
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tamas<br>
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On 09/02/2013 09:54 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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. ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks & Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bobby Jacob</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org">gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org</a> [<a href="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org">mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tamas Papp<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 02, 2013 10:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rejy@redhat.com">rejy@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 09/02/2013 08:52 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>*From:*Bobby Jacob<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>*Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>*To:* <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a> <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org"><mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org></a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>*Subject:* Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Hi,<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>What would be the various options to backup gluster volumes. The<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>bricks are created with xfs filesystems. I’ve gone through the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>concepts of xfsdump concept. Can we schedule daily incremental backups<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>of the gluster volume or bricks. ??<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>What about restoring the bricks or volumes. ?<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>I wouldn't make backups under glusterfs. In theory it should work, but<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>there are too many critical points in the system.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>For example you need to stop every transaction (in case of VMs, then all<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>of them) to make consistent snapshots.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>If you have multiple bricks, all of them has to be snapshotted at the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>same time....etc.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>In addition restoring would be nightmare.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>IMHO, it's a crazy idea.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>tamas<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>ui.: I use dirvish (rsync based backup solution) and it works fine,<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>though cluster side snapshotting feature would help a lot.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><a href="http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/snapshot">http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/snapshot</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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Yes, I know about that, unfortunately it's not ready yet:<br>
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<p style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3 Current status</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="background:#EEEEEE;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;overflow:auto;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> No support availabe for snap'ing a glusterfs volume</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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