[openstack-dev] question about createbackup API in nova

Andrew Laski andrew.laski at rackspace.com
Wed Jun 4 14:15:26 UTC 2014


On 06/04/2014 02:56 AM, Bohai (ricky) wrote:
> Hi stackers,
>
> When I use the createBackup API, I found it just snapshots the root disk of the instance.
> For an instance with multiple cinder backend volumes, it will not snapshot them.
> It's a little different to the things in current createImage API.
>
> My question is whether it's reasonable and discussed decision?
> I tried but can't find the reason.

I don't know if the original reasoning has been discussed, but there has 
been some discussion on improving this behavior.  Some of the summit 
discussion around this see 
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/juno-nova-multi-volume-snapshots .

>
> Best regards to you.
> Ricky
>
>
>
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