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On 02/05/2016 11:38 AM, Sam Yaple wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com
> <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/05/2016 09:58 AM, Sam Yaple wrote:
>
>         Since Nova has no backup mechanism this is clearly a gap and
>         that was the issue
>         Ekko wants to solve.
>
>
>     Nova has had backups for a long time:
>
>     http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-compute-v2.1.html#createBackup
>
> I always forget to qualify that statement don't I?

No worries :)

 > Nova does not have a
> mechanism for _incremental_ backups. Nor does Nova have compression or
> encryption because AFAIK that api only creates a snapshot. I would also
> point out again that snapshots != backups, at least not for those who
> care about backups.

Understood.

-jay