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.--
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