<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Jeremy Stanley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fungi@yuggoth.org" target="_blank">fungi@yuggoth.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2016-02-03 14:32:36 +0000 (+0000), Sam Yaple wrote:<br>
[...]<br>
<span class="">> Luckily, digging into it it appears cinder already has all the<br>
> infrastructure in place to handle what we had talked about in a<br>
> separate email thread Duncan. It is very possible Ekko can<br>
> leverage the existing features to do it's backup with no change<br>
> from Cinder.<br>
</span>[...]<br>
<br>
<devils_advocate>If Cinder's backup facilities already do most of<br>
what you want from it and there's only a little bit of development<br>
work required to add the missing feature, why jump to implementing<br>
this feature in a completely separate project instead rather than<br>
improving Cinder's existing solution so that people who have been<br>
using that can benefit directly?</devils_advocate><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Backing up Cinder was never the initial goal, just a potential feature on the roadmap. Nova is the main goal.<br></div></div></div></div>