I've got a couple of geo-diverse high-capacity ZFS storage boxes for this exact purpose. Geo-rep rsyncs to the boxes & regular snapshots are taken of the ZFS volumes. Works flawlessly & allows us to traverse & restore specific versions of individual files in seconds/minutes.
On 21 November 2016 at 13:32, Gandalf Corvotempesta < [email protected]> wrote: > 2016-11-21 15:48 GMT+01:00 Aravinda <[email protected]>: > > When you set checkpoint, you can watch the status of checkpoint > completion > > using geo-rep status. Once checkpoint complete, it is guaranteed that > > everything created before Checkpoint Time is synced to slave.(Note: It > only > > ensures that all the creates/updates done before checkpoint time but > Geo-rep > > may sync the files which are created/modified after Checkpoint time) > > > > Read more about Checkpoint here > > http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator% > 20Guide/Geo%20Replication/#checkpoint > > Thank you. > So, can I assume this is the official (and only) way to properly > backup a Gluster storage ? > I'm saying "only" way because it would be impossible to backup a multi > terabyte storage with any other software. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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