[Openstack-operators] backup to object store - tool recommendations

Blair Bethwaite blair.bethwaite at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 07:47:31 UTC 2017


Hi Saverio. Looks like we will have that issue within a week or two once we
finally upgrade our rgw (lagging behind the rest of our cluster). I will
try logging​ this as a priority with Red Hat support.

On 29 Mar. 2017 18:39, "Saverio Proto" <zioproto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> we use rclone a lot, and we are happy with it.
>
> the real problem I would say is that a lot of these tools use the
> latest AWS4 signature.
>
> AFAIK the radosgw with Ceph Jewel and Openstack keystone integration
> supports only AWS2 signature because of this bug:
> http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/19056
>
> is anyone else hitting this ?
>
> Saverio
>
> 2017-03-27 22:11 GMT+02:00 John Dickinson <me at not.mn>:
> >
> >
> > On 27 Mar 2017, at 4:39, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any recommendations for good tools to perform
> >> file-system/tree backups and restores to/from a (Ceph RGW-based)
> >> object store (Swift or S3 APIs)? Happy to hear about both FOSS and
> >> commercial options please.
> >>
> >> I'm interested in:
> >> 1) tools known to work or not work at all for a basic file-based data
> backup
> >
> > There's a bunch of backup tools that will work with the Swift API and/or
> the S3 API.
> >
> > Veritas, Commvault, Trilio, and CloudBerry all work. There's other
> companies too that can back specific stuff up to Swift (e.g. Percona with
> MySQL).
> >
> > (The above list taken from https://www.swiftstack.com/solutions/backup
> [my employer] because it's the first linkable place I knew of to answer
> your question.)
> >
> >
> > --John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Plus these extras:
> >> 2) preserves/restores correct file metadata (e.g. owner, group, acls
> etc)
> >> 3) preserves/restores xattrs
> >> 4) backs up empty directories and files
> >> 5) supports some sort of snapshot/versioning/differential
> >> functionality, i.e., will keep a copy or diff or last N versions of a
> >> file or whole backup set, e.g., so that one can restore yesterday's
> >> file/s or last week's but not have to keep two full copies to achieve
> >> it
> >> 6) is readily able to restore individual files
> >> 7) can encrypt/decrypt client side
> >> 8) anything else I should be considering?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> ~Blairo
> >>
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