> Hi Murali, welcome to the OpenStack community. Some comments inline... Hi Jay, Thanks for your comments. I have been involved with OpenStack since Diablo time frame, but mostly monitoring the traffic. Always great to be part of the community.
My comments are inline. > > On 08/28/2013 06:12 PM, Murali Balcha wrote: >> Hello Stackers, >> >> We would like to introduce a new project Raksha, a Data Protection As a >> Service (DPaaS) for OpenStack Cloud. >> >> Raksha’s primary goal is to provide a comprehensive Data Protection for >> OpenStack by leveraging Nova, Swift, Glance and Cinder. Raksha has >> following key features: >> >> 1.Provide an enterprise grade data protection for OpenStack based clouds > > What is "enterprise grade"? Any time I hear that term, I think of Deloitte > and Touche salespeople trying to convince some sucker CIO that "expensive == > good". I'd prefer to just leave the whole "enterprise" thing for the > marketing folks and stick to the specific engineering features ;) I hear you. Will take out the market jargon and stick to technical specifications. > >> 2.Tenant administered backups and restores >> >> 3.Application consistent backups > > Can you expand on this a bit? Data is backed up, not applications... that's > what source control is for :) I meant a VM and all its associated resources such as data volumes are backed up consistently. And if the application is a multi tier application that is spread across multiple vms, then all the vms should be backed up together consistently too. > >> 4.Point In Time(PiT) full and incremental backups and restores > > Cool, very useful. > >> 5.Dedupe at source for efficient backups > > Hmmm... this would depend heavily on what is being backed up and the level of > access that Raksha would have to the tenant's application domains. Unless you > are going to limit yourself to just backing up and restoring instances or > volumes? Is that the plan? Yes, that is the plan. We don't have plans to look into vms and backup any individual resources with in a vm. > >> 6.A job scheduler for periodic backups > > Cron? Yes, similar. > >> 7.Noninvasive backup solution that does not require service interruption >> during backup window > > By "service", are you referring to the tenant's applications running on the > instance? Or are you referring to something else? A service similar to either nova or cinder. We don't want to run any agents inside tenant vms. > > Also, one thing that is really good to expose/debate/discuss early on in the > project's incubation is the RESTful API that the project would expose. I'd be > really interested to see this. Absolutely. We took a first stab of the list restful API that raksha need to support in our wiki @ http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/raksha. > > Finally, would be good to include in the wiki page some discussion about any > interaction with Trove (DBaaS), especially since Trove's API already > implements a backups/ resource [1]. > That is a good point. we will include that in the wiki. > Best, > -jay > > [1] > https://github.com/openstack/database-api/blob/master/openstack-database-api/src/markdown/database-api-v1.md#backups > >> You will find the rationale behind the need for Raksha in OpenStack in >> its Wiki. The wiki also has the preliminary design and the API >> description.Some of the Raksha functionality may overlap with Nova and >> Cinder projects and as a community lets work together to coordinate the >> features among these projects. We would like to seek out early feedback >> so we can address as many issues as we can in the first code drop. We >> are hoping to enlist the OpenStack community help in making Raksha a >> part of OpenStack. >> >> Raksha’s project resources: >> >> Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha >> >> Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/raksha >> >> Github: https://github.com/DPaaS-Raksha/Raksha (We will upload a >> prototype code in few days) >> >> If you want to talk to us, send an email to >> openstack-...@lists.launchpad.net with "[raksha]" in the subject or use >> #openstack-raksha irc channel. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Murali Balcha >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
