You could make a backup of the snapshot and then transfer it to a different tenant In the event that you need to restore it, you could transfer it back to the user. I think you could do this in an automatic fashion as well, but you'll have to do some testing though to make sure it does what you need it to do. On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Forrest Flagg <raymond.flagg at maine.edu> wrote: > All, > > I have a working Kilo cloud running with ceph for the storage backend. > I'd like to use RBD snapshots for backups because they're so fast, but > cinder doesn't allow volume deletion when an RBD snapshot exists. I want > to keep daily backups in case a user terminates an instance and we need > recover it or for disaster recovery. Is there a way to mark the volumes as > deleted when a tenant deletes them so they don't show up in OpenStack but > still exist within ceph for backup purposes? Thanks, > > -- > Forrest Flagg > Cloud System Administrator > Advanced Computing Group > (207) 561-3575 > raymond.flagg at maine.edu > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20160411/03cb9406/attachment.html>