Good point Diego. Thanks! On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Diego Remolina <dijur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not so fast, 3.8.4 is the latest if you are using official RHEL rpms > from Red Hat Gluster Storage, so support for that should go through > your Red Hat subscription. If you are using the community packages, > then yes, you want to update to a more current version. > > Seems like the latest is: 3.8.4-44.el7 > > Diego > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Ben Werthmann <b...@apcera.com> wrote: > > > >> First, please note that gluster 3.8 is EOL and that 3.8.4 is rather old > in > >> the 3.8 release, 3.8.15 is the current (and probably final) release of > 3.8. > >> > >> "With the release of GlusterFS-3.12, GlusterFS-3.8 (LTM) and > >> GlusterFS-3.11 (STM) have reached EOL. Except for serious security > issues no > >> further updates to these versions are forthcoming. If you find a bug > please > >> see if you can reproduce it with 3.10 or 3.12 and > >> file a BZ if appropriate." > >> http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/packaging/2017-August/000363.html > >> > >> Gluster 3.12 includes '#1428061: Halo Replication feature for AFR > >> translator' which was introduced in 3.11. See Halo Replication feature > in > >> AFR has been introduced for a summary. 3.11 is EOL, best to use 3.12 > (long > >> term release) if this is of interest to you. > >> > >> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Sunil Aggarwal <sunchill...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> What is the preferred way of taking glusterfs backup? > >>> > >>> I am using Glusterfs 3.8.4. > >>> > >>> We've configured gluster on thick provisioned LV in which 50% of the VG > >>> is kept free for the LVM snapshot. > >> > >> > >> Gluster Volume Snapshots require each brick to have it's own thin LV. > Only > >> thin LVs are supported with volume snapshots. > >> > >> Gluster snapshots do not provide a recovery path in the event of > >> catastrophic loss of a Gluster volume. > >> > >> - Gluster Volume Snapshots provide point-in-time recovery for a > healthy > >> Gluster Volume. A restore will reset the entire volume to a previous > >> point-in-time recovery point. Granular recovery may be performed with > admin > >> intervention. > >> - User Serviceable Snapshots exposes Gluster Volume Snapshots via the > >> .snaps directory in every directory of the mounted volume. Please review > >> documentation for requirements specific to each protocol used to access > the > >> gluster volume. > >> > >>> > >>> is it any different then taking snapshot on a thin provisioned LV? > >> > >> > >> If you don't want Gluster Volume Snapshots, and are just looking to > backup > >> the current state of a volume, Gluster offers a number of features to > >> recover from catastrophic loss of a Gluster volume. > >> > >> - Simple method: mount the gluster volume and run your backup utility > of > >> choice > >> - glusterfind generates a file list (full and incremental) for passing > to > >> another utility to generate a backup. See: > >> http://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/GlusterFS%20Tools/glusterfind/ > >> https://milindchangireblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/why-glusterfind/ > >> http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017- > August/032219.html > >> - Geo-replication provides a distributed, continuous, asynchronous, and > >> incremental replication service from one site to another over Local Area > >> Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), and the Internet. (taken > from > >> RedHat doc) > >> > >> > >> Please see docs for additional info about each of the above: > >> > >> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ > gluster_storage/3.2/pdf/administration_guide/Red_Hat_Gluster_Storage-3.2- > Administration_Guide-en-US.pdf > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Thanks, > >>> Sunil Aggarwal > >>> 844-734-5346 > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Gluster-users mailing list > >>> Gluster-users@gluster.org > >>> http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users@gluster.org > > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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