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On 3/19/2018 10:55 PM, TommyLike Hu wrote:
> Now Cinder can transfer volume (with or without snapshots) to 
> different projects,  and this make it possbile to transfer data across 
> tenant via volume or image. Recently we had a conversation with our 
> customer from Germany, they mentioned they are more pleased if we can 
> support transfer data accross tenant via backup not image or volume, 
> and these below are some of their concerns:
>
> 1. There is a use case that they would like to deploy their 
> develop/test/product systems in the same region but within different 
> tenants, so they have the requirment to share/transfer data across 
> tenants.
>
> 2. Users are more willing to use backups to secure/store their volume 
> data since backup feature is more advanced in product openstack 
> version (incremental backups/periodic backups/etc.).
>
> 3. Volume transfer is not a valid option as it's in AZ and it's a 
> complicated process if we would like to share the data to multiple 
> projects (keep copy in all the tenants).
>
> 4. Most of the users would like to use image for bootable volume only 
> and share volume data via image means the users have to maintain lots 
> of image copies when volume backup changed as well as the whole system 
> needs to differentiate bootable images and none bootable images, most 
> important, we can not restore volume data via image now.
>
> 5. The easiest way for this seems to support sharing backup to 
> different projects, the owner project have the full authority while 
> shared projects only can view/read the backups.
>
> 6. AWS has the similar concept, share snapshot. We can share it by 
> modify the snapshot's create volume permissions [1].
>
> Looking forward to any like or dislike or suggestion on this idea 
> accroding to my feature proposal experience:)
>
>
> Thanks
> TommyLike
>
>
> [1]: 
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-modifying-snapshot-permissions.html
>
>
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Tommy,

As discussed at the PTG, this still sounds like improper usage of 
Backup.  Happy to hear input from others but I am having trouble getting 
my head around it.

The idea of sharing a snapshot, as you mention AWS supports sounds like 
it could be a more sensible approach.  Why are you not proposing that?

Jay

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