<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Amen. This would, from an user perspective, simplify things enormously, and a complete package would aid organizations to get back up and running at a time (disaster recovery) when things are challenging and chaotic.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Tim Bell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>As regards the backup/snapshots....<br><br><blockquote type="cite">From our use cases on service consolidation for production servers, we'd like to be able to<br></blockquote><br>- support frequent snap shots, ideally to also make those snapshots easily available in Glance for test machine clone operations<br>- replicate those snapshots to other sites to allow for disaster recovery<br>- allow long term archiving to S3 such as historical images for data preservation<br><br>Being able to associate a VM image snapshot with a block storage snapshot so that the entire state of a machine and its external volumes can be recovered together would be very useful for these disaster recovery scenarios.<br><br>Tim Bell<br>CERN<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>