On 18 Oct 2012, at 17:47, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Jimmy Tang <[email protected]> wrote: >> What I actually meant to ask was, is it possible to copy objects or pools >> from one ceph cluster to another (for disaster recovery reasons) and if this >> feature is planned or even considered? > > That's the "async replication for disaster recovery" feature that has > been mentioned every now and then. > > You could build it as "read from one cluster, write to another" > yourself, the client libraries are perfectly able to talk to two > clusters at once. Ceph itself doesn't have that feature currently, but > might in the future. It's definitely on the roadmap, and asked for a > lot. >
that sounds promising that it is possible to do it. It's certainly a feature that would be highly desirable for preservation and archival systems. > This has nothing to do with the "many clusters on the same hardware" > feature this thread is about.. > I figured that out after I had sent the email. Jimmy.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
