<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Tim Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">There is a need for an end user service for backup/snapshot on a schedule. Raksha (<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha</a>)
was close but does not seem to be actively developed at the moment. Extensions for remote replication on schedule would be really welcome.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> There is a project called Mistral (<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral </a>) which is <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">a task management service, designed for OpenStack user tasks.</span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.3999996185303px;line-height:20px"> It aims at providing a widely used cloud cron service.</span></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">It is not clear to me how the standard user arranges a reasonable backup strategy for their VM currently on OpenStack ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">While there are some applications which can be re-created from scratch faster than from backup, the typical CERN test/dev instance
is where people try out ideas before setting things up in Puppet or with external volumes. Explaining that the VM is lost is not an easy discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">It can all be scripted… can we arrange that this this requires a relatively limited effort to script ? Passwords, expiration of old
images and replication are not trivial problems to solve for the average end user.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 23 December 2014 10:35<br>
<b>To:</b> Erik McCormick<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack] Openstack capabilities<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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The snapshot operation and daily/weekly/hourly backup operations are currently supported via OpenStack Nova's API. However, if you're looking for some Windows GUI that does backups, that isn't something that OpenStack is about to provide.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Yeah we do have API support for instance backup periodically , but AFAIK this feature doesn't work at all, there isn't a periodic worker doing that, and<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> instance periodic backup info isn't stored anywhere, I have written a patch to implement that for a customer before, if this is a common feature request, I'd like to discuss in the openstack-dev ML and contribute it to upstream.<u></u><u></u></p>
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