I would not say that it is the only and official way. For examples, the bareos (bareos.org) backup system can talk to cluster via gfapi, IIRC Il 21/nov/2016 17:32, "Gandalf Corvotempesta" < gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> ha scritto:> > 2016-11-21 15:48 GMT+01:00 Aravinda <avishwan at redhat.com>: > > When you set checkpoint, you can watch the status of checkpointcompletion> > using geo-rep status. Once checkpoint complete, it is guaranteed that > > everything created before Checkpoint Time is synced to slave.(Note: Itonly> > ensures that all the creates/updates done before checkpoint time butGeo-rep> > may sync the files which are created/modified after Checkpoint time) > > > > Read more about Checkpoint here > >http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Geo%20Replication/#checkpoint> > Thank you. > So, can I assume this is the official (and only) way to properly > backup a Gluster storage ? > I'm saying "only" way because it would be impossible to backup a multi > terabyte storage with any other software. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20161125/bd28c4eb/attachment.html>