On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > > > There is a need for an end user service for backup/snapshot on a schedule. > Raksha (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha) was close but does not > seem to be actively developed at the moment. Extensions for remote > replication on schedule would be really welcome. >
There is a project called Mistral ( https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral>) which is a task management service, designed for OpenStack user tasks. It aims at providing a widely used cloud cron service. > > > It is not clear to me how the standard user arranges a reasonable backup > strategy for their VM currently on OpenStack ? > > > > While there are some applications which can be re-created from scratch > faster than from backup, the typical CERN test/dev instance is where people > try out ideas before setting things up in Puppet or with external volumes. > Explaining that the VM is lost is not an easy discussion. > > > > It can all be scripted… can we arrange that this this requires a > relatively limited effort to script ? Passwords, expiration of old images > and replication are not trivial problems to solve for the average end user. > > > > Tim > > > > *From:* Yaguang Tang [mailto:heut2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 23 December 2014 10:35 > *To:* Erik McCormick > *Cc:* openstack@lists.openstack.org > *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Openstack capabilities > > … > > 14.Supports backup manager > > > The snapshot operation and daily/weekly/hourly backup operations are > currently supported via OpenStack Nova's API. However, if you're looking > for some Windows GUI that does backups, that isn't something that OpenStack > is about to provide. > > > > Yeah we do have API support for instance backup periodically , but > AFAIK this feature doesn't work at all, there isn't a periodic worker doing > that, and > > instance periodic backup info isn't stored anywhere, I have written > a patch to implement that for a customer before, if this is a common > feature request, I'd like to discuss in the openstack-dev ML and > contribute it to upstream. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > -- Tang Yaguang
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