<div dir="ltr">How do you guys back-up instance volumes, on what frequency, with a method to suspend the instance, copy data and resume the instance?<br><br>Thanks!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmaziuk@bmrb.wisc.edu" target="_blank">dmaziuk@bmrb.wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 05/05/2014 04:43 AM, Matej wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I am using a NFS server via Cinder for storing volumes of our instances.<br>
> Since if I understand correctly, you can't create a snapshot of those<br>
> images, what is the proper way to create backup copies? Should I stop the<br>
> instance, copy the file and after copying is completed, start the instance<br>
> back? Is there any way that wouldn't require stopping the instances?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I think in general you should suspend the instance anyway: e.g. making a<br>
snapshot in the middle of a database transaction may leave you with a<br>
broken database.<br>
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--<br>
Dimitri Maziuk<br>
Programmer/sysadmin<br>
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- <a href="http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu" target="_blank">http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu</a><br>
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