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Hi Sean. Sorry for the late reply.
What we want to do is backing up snapshots in case of a complete compute
lost of as a plan for disaster recovery.
So after recreating the environment we can restore snapshots and start the
VMs again.

Cheers


On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:14 PM Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 3/4/20 9:58 AM, Gorka Eguileor wrote:
> > On 03/03, Alfredo De Luca wrote:
> >> Hi all.
> >> We have our env with Openstack (Train) and cinder with CEPH (nautilus)
> >> backend.
> >> We are creating automatic volumes snapshots and now we'd like to export
> >> them as a backup/restore plan. After exporting the snapshots we will use
> >> Acronis as backup tool.
> >>
> >> I couldn't find the right steps/commands to exports the snapshots.
> >> Any info?
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> --
> >> *Alfredo*
> > Hi Alfredo,
> >
> > What kind of backup/restore plan do you have planned?
> >
> > Because snapshots are not meant to be used in a Disaster Recovery
> > backup/restore plan, so the only thing available are the manage/unmanage
> > commands.
> >
> > These commands are meant to add an existing volume/snapshots into Cinder
> > together, not to unmanage/manage them independently.
> >
> > For example, you wouldn't be able to manage a snapshot if the volume is
> > not already managed.  Also unmanaging the snapshot would block the
> > deletion of the RBD volume itself.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gorka.
>
> If the intent is to use the snapshots as a source to backup the volume
> data, leaving the actual volume attached and IO running but still
> getting a "static" view of the code, then you would need to create a
> volume from the chosen snapshot, mount that volume somewhere that is
> accessible to your backup software, perform the copy of the data, then
> delete the volume when complete.
>
> I haven't used Acronis myself, but the issue for some backup software
> could be that the volume it is backing up from is going to be different
> every time. Though you could make sure it is mounted at the same place
> so the backup software at least *thinks* it's backing up the same thing.
>
> Then restoring the data will likely require some manual intervention,
> but that's pretty much always the case when something goes wrong. I
> would just recommend you test the full disaster recovery scenario to
> make sure you have that figured out and working right before you
> actually need it.
>
> Sean
>
>
>

-- 
*Alfredo*
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