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OpenStack really needs a way to have a control api for selecting a swift "flavor", and letting you have multiple swift endpoints within, so swift the software, radowgw, and vendor endpoints can all co'exist.

Kevin
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From: Xav Paice [xavpaice at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 2:45 PM
To: Curtis
Cc: OpenStack Operators
Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] Rados Gateway to Swift migration

On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 07:18 -0600, Curtis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Xav Paice <xavpaice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We're in the process of migrating our object storage from Rados Gateway
> > to Swift, and I was wondering if anyone has experiences with the data
> > migration steps from one to the other?
> >
> > In particular, we're currently copying each object and container one by
> > one, but the process of inspecting each and every object is incredibly
> > slow.  The logic we have is kind of rsync-like, so we can repeat and
> > iterate until it's close, but the final go-live cutover will still take
> > many hours to complete.  Ideas on how to get over that would be very
> > much appreciated!
>
> Could you load balance to on backend or another based on whether or
> not the account has been migrated yet? I haven't thought that through
> completely...
>

That would be the preferable situation, migrating one customer at a
time, but we couldn't figure out how to achieve that goal without
writing some kind of middleware/proxy type of thing, or being clever
with haproxy.  We may yet have to go down that route, but I'm hoping
not!


> Thanks,
> Curtis.
>
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> >
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