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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, John Garbutt <john at johngarbutt.com> wrote:

> On 6 March 2014 08:50, zhangyu (AI) <zhangyu11 at huawei.com> wrote:
> > It seems to be an interesting idea. In fact, a China-based public IaaS,
> QingCloud, has provided a similar feature
> > to their virtual servers. Within 2 hours after a virtual server is
> deleted, the server owner can decide whether
> > or not to cancel this deletion and re-cycle that "deleted" virtual
> server.
> >
> > People make mistakes, while such a feature helps in urgent cases. Any
> idea here?
>
> Nova has soft_delete and restore for servers. That sounds similar?
>
> John
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zhangleiqiang [mailto:zhangleiqiang at huawei.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 2:19 PM
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume delete
> protection
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Current openstack provide the delete volume function to the user.
> > But it seems there is no any protection for user's delete operation miss.
> >
> > As we know the data in the volume maybe very important and valuable.
> > So it's better to provide a method to the user to avoid the volume
> delete miss.
> >
> > Such as:
> > We can provide a safe delete for the volume.
> > User can specify how long the volume will be delay deleted(actually
> deleted) when he deletes the volume.
> > Before the volume is actually deleted, user can cancel the delete
> operation and find back the volume.
> > After the specified time, the volume will be actually deleted by the
> system.
> >
> > Any thoughts? Welcome any advices.
> >
> > Best regards to you.
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > zhangleiqiang
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> >
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I think a soft-delete for Cinder sounds like a neat idea.  You should file
a BP that we can target for Juno.

Thanks,
John
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