I could still use feedback on this plan. On Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:08:12 PM UTC+10, Alex Harvey wrote: > > Hi all > > I could use some help getting my head around the snapshot and restore > functionality in ES. > > I have a requirement to do incremental daily tape backups and full backups > weekly using EMC's Avamar backup software. > > I'd really appreciate if someone can tell me if the following plan is > going to work - > > 1) Export an NFS filesystem from the storage node to both ES data nodes, > and mount that as /mnt/backup on both nodes. > > 2) From one of the ES nodes register this directory as the shared > repository: curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup' -d > '{"type": "fs","settings": {"location": "/mnt/backup"}}' > > 3) On Saturday do a full backup: > > i. Get a list of all snapshots using: curl -XGET > 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/_status' > ii. For each of these delete using a command like: curl -XDELETE > 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup/snapshot_20140830' > iii. Create a full backup using: curl -XPUT > "localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup/snapshot_$(date > +%Y%m%d)?wait_for_completion=true" > iv. Copy the /mnt/backup directory to tape telling Avamar to take a full > backup > > 4) On Sunday to Friday do incremental backups based on the Saturday > backup: > > i. Simply run: curl -XPUT > "localhost:9200/_snapshot/backup/snapshot_$(date > +%d%m%Y)?wait_for_completion=true" > ii. Copy /mnt/backup to tape telling Avamar to take an incremental backup > > Is this plan going to work? Is there a better way? > > Thanks very much in advance. > > Best regards, > Alex >
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