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On 6 March 2014 08:50, zhangyu (AI) <zhangyu11 at huawei.com> wrote:
> It seems to be an interesting idea. In fact, a China-based public IaaS, QingCloud, has provided a similar feature
> to their virtual servers. Within 2 hours after a virtual server is deleted, the server owner can decide whether
> or not to cancel this deletion and re-cycle that "deleted" virtual server.
>
> People make mistakes, while such a feature helps in urgent cases. Any idea here?

Nova has soft_delete and restore for servers. That sounds similar?

John

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhangleiqiang [mailto:zhangleiqiang at huawei.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 2:19 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Feature about volume delete protection
>
> Hi all,
>
> Current openstack provide the delete volume function to the user.
> But it seems there is no any protection for user's delete operation miss.
>
> As we know the data in the volume maybe very important and valuable.
> So it's better to provide a method to the user to avoid the volume delete miss.
>
> Such as:
> We can provide a safe delete for the volume.
> User can specify how long the volume will be delay deleted(actually deleted) when he deletes the volume.
> Before the volume is actually deleted, user can cancel the delete operation and find back the volume.
> After the specified time, the volume will be actually deleted by the system.
>
> Any thoughts? Welcome any advices.
>
> Best regards to you.
>
>
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> zhangleiqiang
>
> Best Regards
>
>
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