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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Hello Stackers,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">We would like to introduce a new project Raksha, a Data Protection As a Service (DPaaS) for OpenStack Cloud.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Raksha’s primary goal is to provide a comprehensive Data Protection for OpenStack by leveraging Nova, Swift, Glance and Cinder. Raksha has following key features:</p>
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<span><span>1.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Provide an enterprise grade data protection for OpenStack based clouds</p>
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<span><span>2.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Tenant administered backups and restores</p>
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<span><span>3.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Application consistent backups </p>
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<span><span>4.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Point In Time(PiT) full and incremental backups and restores</p>
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<span><span>5.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Dedupe at source for efficient backups</p>
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<span><span>6.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>A job scheduler for periodic backups</p>
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<span><span>7.<span style="font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span>Noninvasive backup solution that does not require service interruption during backup window</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">You will find the rationale behind the need for Raksha in OpenStack in its Wiki. The wiki also has the preliminary design and the API description.<span>
</span>Some of the Raksha functionality may overlap with Nova and Cinder projects and as a community lets work together to coordinate the features among these projects. We would like to seek out early feedback so we can address as many issues as we can in the
first code drop. We are hoping to enlist the OpenStack community help in making Raksha a part of OpenStack.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Raksha’s project resources:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Wiki: <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha">
<font color="#0000ff">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha</font></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Launchpad: <a href="https://launchpad.net/raksha">
<font color="#0000ff">https://launchpad.net/raksha</font></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Github: <a href="https://github.com/DPaaS-Raksha/Raksha">
<font color="#0000ff">https://github.com/DPaaS-Raksha/Raksha</font></a> (We will upload a prototype code in few days)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">If you want to talk to us, send an email to openstack-dev@lists.launchpad.net with "[raksha]" in the subject or use #openstack-raksha irc channel.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Best Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Murali Balcha</p>
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