I'm also interested in this question. Can any body give some view point? I wonder *Do* we really need backup the image through snapshot in an excellent performance, reliability and scalability distributed file system?
2015-01-19 18:58 GMT+08:00 Luis Periquito <periqu...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I'm currently creating a business case around ceph RBD, and one of the > issues revolves around backup. > > After having a look at > http://ceph.com/dev-notes/incremental-snapshots-with-rbd/ I was thinking > on creating hourly snapshots (corporate policy) on the original cluster > (replicated pool), and then copying these snapshots to a replica cluster > (EC pool) located offsite. > > After some time we would delete the original snapshot (weeks to months), > but we would need to maintain the replica for a lot more time (years). > > Will this solution work properly? Can we keep a huge amount of snapshots > of a RBD? Potentially for each RBD in the tens of thousands, with hundreds > of thousands possible? Has anyone been through these scenarios? > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > > -- Regards Frank Yu
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