Thank you very much for this On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Vijay Bellur <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/29/2014 01:24 AM, Maged Mokhtar wrote: > >> i am trying to use snapshot feature using gluster 3.6.1, i am not sure >> how i can make the client see the snapshot. >> >> i created a replica volume on 2 servers, the bricks were mounted from >> thin lvm volumes: >> gluster vol create gvol1 replica 2 >> storage1:/gluster-server/mount1/brick1 >> storage2:/gluster-server/mount1/brick1 >> >> i also created a snapshot: >> gluster snapshot create gvol1-snap1 gvol1 >> >> it returns success, i can see the snapshot using: >> gluster snapshot list >> gluster snapshot info gvol1-snap1 ( shows Status started ) >> gluster snapshot status gvol1-snap1 ( Shows brick path >> /var/run/gluster/snaps/XX on both storage servers ) >> >> i can also see the snapshot with preserved data mounted in >> /var/run/gluster/snaps/XX >> >> 1) Now how do i access this snapshot from a client ? if i try to run >> mount -t glusterfs storage1:gvol1-snap1 /gluster-client/gvol1-snap1 >> this does not work, it does not give an error but the mount is empty >> >> 2) i also tried using uss ( user servicable snapshots ) >> gluster volume set gvol1 features.uss enable >> returned success but i do not see the .snap dirs in my main mount. >> > > The section on accessing snapshots in admin guide [1] might be useful to > get this going. > > -Vijay > > [1] https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/ > admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_managing_snapshots.md > >
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