MS On 5 Sep 2015 12:57 am, "Mathieu Chateau" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > so far I use rsnapshot. This script do rsync with rotation, and most important same files are stored only once through hard link (inode). I save space, but still rsync need to parse all folders to know for new files. > > I am also interested in solution 1), but need to be stored on distinct drives/servers. We can't afford to loose data and snapshot in case of human error or disaster. > > > > Cordialement, > Mathieu CHATEAU > http://www.lotp.fr > > 2015-09-03 13:05 GMT+02:00 Merlin Morgenstern < [email protected]>: >> >> I have about 1M files in a GlusterFS with rep 2 on 3 nodes runnnig gluster 3.7.3. >> >> What would be a recommended automated backup strategy for this setup? >> >> I already considered the following:
Have you considered glusterfs geo-rep? It's actually for disaster recovery. But might suit your backup use case as well. My two cents //MS >> >> 1) glusterfs snapshots in combination with dd. This unfortunatelly was not possible so far as I could not find any info on how to make a image file out of the snapshots and how to automate the snapshot procedure. >> >> 2) rsync the mounted file share to a second directory and do a tar on the entire directory after rsync completed >> >> 3) combination of 1 and 2. Doing a snapshot that gets mounted automaticaly and then rsync from there. Problem: How to automate snapshots and how to know the mount path >> >> Currently I am only able to do the second option, but the fist option seems to be the most atractive. >> >> Thank you for any help on this. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
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