Does cinder-backup support multi-backend?

Nguyễn Hữu Khôi nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 06:44:43 UTC 2023


Hello.
I feel that people don't use cinder-backup because it is slow and not show
more stats such as how many percent to complete a backup job,
Nguyen Huu Khoi


On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:06 PM Christian Rohmann <
christian.rohmann at inovex.de> wrote:

> Wondel, Khôi,
>
>
> On 06/04/2023 09:39, Rajat Dhasmana wrote:
> > Currently configuring multiple cinder backup backends is not supported.
> > This was brought up in our last cinder meeting on 06 April, 2023[1].
> > A spec was proposed to implement this[2] but there aren't any patches
> > to implement this.
> > Christian Rohmann (crohmann on IRC) has shown interest in this topic,
> > so probably you can contact him about the details and can collaborate
> > on the effort.
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://meetings.opendev.org/irclogs/%23openstack-meeting-alt/%23openstack-meeting-alt.2023-04-05.log.html#t2023-04-05T14:50:24
> > [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder-specs/+/712301
>
>
> I am just as interested as you to have this feature.
> First to allow transitioning from one backup backend to another, but
> also to offer multiple "types" of backups.
> One could i.e. be "onsite" the other "offsite".
>
> I gladly rework the spec and propose it for Bobcat. But I do not have
> the capacity to implement this.
> Yes, cinder itself and the already present support for different volume
> types could serve as some kind of blueprint, but having more than one
> type of backup storage likely is a little more complicated to implement
> and transition to as it first appears.
>
> So what are your thoughts on the matter then?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Christian
>
>
>
>
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