Gluster users - Jan 2019 - Glusterfs backup and restore

Hi,
  I am able to take the glusterfs snapshot and activated it.
Now I want to send the snapshot to another machine for backup (Preferably
tar file).
When there is a problem, I wanted to take the backed up data from another
machine and restore.
I could not compress the data. I mean snapshot have been created at
" /var/lib/glusterd/snaps/"
Now if i compress the snapshot, actual data is not present.
Where exactly, I have to compress the data and restore back ?
Kindly provide your suggestions.
Thanks,
Kannan V
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Kannan,

Currently GlusterFS depends on backend LVM snapshot for snapshot feature,
and LVM is not very friendly with migrating blocks. Currently best way of
sending the data out from snapshot would be to do the 'xfsdump' from
snapshot, and send it to another place. May be that would work faster.

-Amar

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:49 AM Kannan V <kannanv06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am able to take the glusterfs snapshot and activated it.
> Now I want to send the snapshot to another machine for backup (Preferably
> tar file).
> When there is a problem, I wanted to take the backed up data from another
> machine and restore.
> I could not compress the data. I mean snapshot have been created at
> " /var/lib/glusterd/snaps/"
> Now if i compress the snapshot, actual data is not present.
> Where exactly, I have to compress the data and restore back ?
> Kindly provide your suggestions.
> Thanks,
> Kannan V
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Amar Tumballi (amarts)
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