<div dir="ltr">I've got a couple of geo-diverse high-capacity ZFS storage boxes for this exact purpose. Geo-rep rsyncs to the boxes & regular snapshots are taken of the ZFS volumes. Works flawlessly & allows us to traverse & restore specific versions of individual files in seconds/minutes.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 November 2016 at 13:32, Gandalf Corvotempesta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com" target="_blank">gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">2016-11-21 15:48 GMT+01:00 Aravinda <<a href="mailto:avishwan@redhat.com">avishwan@redhat.com</a>>:<br>
> When you set checkpoint, you can watch the status of checkpoint completion<br>
> using geo-rep status. Once checkpoint complete, it is guaranteed that<br>
> everything created before Checkpoint Time is synced to slave.(Note: It only<br>
> ensures that all the creates/updates done before checkpoint time but Geo-rep<br>
> may sync the files which are created/modified after Checkpoint time)<br>
><br>
> Read more about Checkpoint here<br>
> <a href="http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Geo%20Replication/#checkpoint" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gluster.readthedocs.io/<wbr>en/latest/Administrator%<wbr>20Guide/Geo%20Replication/#<wbr>checkpoint</a><br>
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</span>Thank you.<br>
So, can I assume this is the official (and only) way to properly<br>
backup a Gluster storage ?<br>
I'm saying "only" way because it would be impossible to backup a multi<br>
terabyte storage with any other software.<br>
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