I suppose the other option here, which I initially dismissed because
Red Hat are not supporting it, is to have a CephFS dir/tree bound to a
cache-tier fronted EC pool. Is anyone having luck with such a setup?
On 3 March 2017 at 21:40, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Whilst I agree CephFS wo
Thanks for the useful reply Robin and sorry for not getting back sooner...
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 18:01:00 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:55:06 +1100, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for good tools to perform
>> file-system/tree backup
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:55:06AM +1100, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> Does anyone have any recommendations for good tools to perform
> file-system/tree backups and restores to/from a RGW object store (Swift or
> S3 APIs)? Happy to hear about both FOSS and commercial options please.
This isn't Ceph spe
Hi Marc,
Whilst I agree CephFS would probably help compared to your present
solution, what I'm looking for something that can talk to a the RadosGW
restful object storage APIs, so that the backing storage can be durable and
low-cost, i.e., on an erasure coded pool. In this case we're looking to
ba
Hi Blair,
We are also thinking of using ceph for 'backup'. At the moment we are
using rsync and hardlinks on a drbd setup. But I think when using cephfs
things could speed up, because file information is gotten from the mds
daemon, so this should save on one rsync file lookup, and we expect
