How do you guys back-up instance volumes, on what frequency, with a method to suspend the instance, copy data and resume the instance?
Thanks! On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <[email protected]>wrote: > On 05/05/2014 04:43 AM, Matej wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using a NFS server via Cinder for storing volumes of our instances. > > Since if I understand correctly, you can't create a snapshot of those > > images, what is the proper way to create backup copies? Should I stop the > > instance, copy the file and after copying is completed, start the > instance > > back? Is there any way that wouldn't require stopping the instances? > > I think in general you should suspend the instance anyway: e.g. making a > snapshot in the middle of a database transaction may leave you with a > broken database. > > -- > Dimitri Maziuk > Programmer/sysadmin > BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > >
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