I think its a good idea to include the auto-remove of the snapshots based on the time or space as threshold as mentioned in below link.
http://www.howtogeek.com/110138/how-to-back-up-your-linux-system-with-back-in-time/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Subramanian" <ansub...@redhat.com> To: "Paul Cuzner" <pcuz...@redhat.com> Cc: gluster-de...@gluster.org, "gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org>, "Anand Avati" <aav...@redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 7:50:30 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design Hi Paul, that is definitely doable and a very nice suggestion. It is just that we probably won't be able to get to that in the immediate code drop (what we like to call phase-1 of the feature). But yes, let us try to implement what you suggest for phase-2. Soon :-) Regards, Anand On 05/06/2014 07:27 AM, Paul Cuzner wrote: Just one question relating to thoughts around how you apply a filter to the snapshot view from a user's perspective. In the "considerations" section, it states - "We plan to introduce a configurable option to limit the number of snapshots visible under the USS feature." Would it not be possible to take the meta data from the snapshots to form a tree hierarchy when the number of snapshots present exceeds a given threshold, effectively organising the snaps by time. I think this would work better from an end-user workflow perspective. i.e. .snaps \/ Today +-- snap01_20140503_0800 +-- snap02_ 20140503_ 1400 > Last 7 days > 7-21 days > 21-60 days > 60-180days > 180days From: "Anand Subramanian" <ansub...@redhat.com> To: gluster-de...@nongnu.org , "gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org> Cc: "Anand Avati" <aav...@redhat.com> Sent: Saturday, 3 May, 2014 2:35:26 AM Subject: [Gluster-users] User-serviceable snapshots design Attached is a basic write-up of the user-serviceable snapshot feature design (Avati's). Please take a look and let us know if you have questions of any sort... We have a basic implementation up now; reviews and upstream commit should follow very soon over the next week. Cheers, Anand _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users