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On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

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> There is a need for an end user service for backup/snapshot on a schedule.
> Raksha (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Raksha) was close but does not
> seem to be actively developed at the moment. Extensions for remote
> replication on schedule would be really welcome.
>

   There is a project called Mistral (
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral>) which is a task management
service, designed for OpenStack user tasks.
   It aims at providing a widely used cloud cron service.

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> It is not clear to me how the standard user arranges a reasonable backup
> strategy for their VM currently on OpenStack ?
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> While there are some applications which can be re-created from scratch
> faster than from backup, the typical CERN test/dev instance is where people
> try out ideas before setting things up in Puppet or with external volumes.
> Explaining that the VM is lost is not an easy discussion.
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> It can all be scripted… can we arrange that this this requires a
> relatively limited effort to script ? Passwords, expiration of old images
> and replication are not trivial problems to solve for the average end user.
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> Tim
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> *From:* Yaguang Tang [mailto:heut2008 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 23 December 2014 10:35
> *To:* Erik McCormick
> *Cc:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Openstack capabilities
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>    …
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> 14.Supports backup manager
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> The snapshot operation and daily/weekly/hourly backup operations are
> currently supported via OpenStack Nova's API. However, if you're looking
> for some Windows GUI that does backups, that isn't something that OpenStack
> is about to provide.
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>       Yeah we do have API support for instance backup periodically , but
> AFAIK this feature doesn't work at all, there isn't a periodic worker doing
> that, and
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>        instance periodic backup info isn't stored anywhere, I have written
> a patch to implement that for a customer before, if this is a common
> feature request,  I'd like to discuss in the openstack-dev ML and
> contribute it to upstream.
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Tang Yaguang
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