Amen. This would, from an user perspective, simplify things enormously, and a complete package would aid organizations to get back up and running at a time (disaster recovery) when things are challenging and chaotic. Bernard Golden bernard.golden at gmail.com On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Tim Bell wrote: > As regards the backup/snapshots.... > >> From our use cases on service consolidation for production servers, we'd like to be able to > > - support frequent snap shots, ideally to also make those snapshots easily available in Glance for test machine clone operations > - replicate those snapshots to other sites to allow for disaster recovery > - allow long term archiving to S3 such as historical images for data preservation > > Being able to associate a VM image snapshot with a block storage snapshot so that the entire state of a machine and its external volumes can be recovered together would be very useful for these disaster recovery scenarios. > > Tim Bell > CERN > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20110721/a6c9a200/attachment.html>