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On 9/20/2013 8:37 AM, Michael Basnight wrote:
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> On Sep 18, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Giuseppe Galeota wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>> can you give me more informations about the status of the Backup Design project?
>> Is it an active project or only a proof-of-concept?
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> Its been implemented in the trove codebase. Id think its closer to active than proof of concept. If you search the git log for backup you will see that a good ammt of commits have gone into making the backup plugins code pretty solid. But i havent seen a company deploy it yet, since its a pretty new feature. So i imagine there might be tweaks here or there during the Icehouse release.
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In my opinion, to be truly effective snapshotting of VMs needs to be 
co-ordinated with with snapshotting of volumes. I think that 
state-management's taskflows would be the correct solution.