Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread Tamas Papp
On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote: *From:*Bobby Jacob *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM *To:* gluster-users@gluster.org mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org *Subject:* Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes. Hi, What would be the various options to backup gluster volumes. The

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote: On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote: *From:*Bobby Jacob *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM *To:* gluster-users@gluster.org mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org *Subject:* Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes. Hi, What would

Re: [Gluster-users] Hardware Sizing Requirments

2013-09-02 Thread James
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Bobby Jacob bobby.ja...@alshaya.com wrote: That’s why I'm repeatedly asking. What should be the memory/cpu sizing required for these gluster nodes . ?? The answer is, it depends. On a lot of things. Especially your workloads and the type of data being stored.

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread Tamas Papp
On 09/02/2013 08:52 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: On 09/02/2013 12:18 PM, Tamas Papp wrote: On 09/01/2013 08:10 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote: *From:*Bobby Jacob *Sent:* Wednesday, August 28, 2013 8:35 AM *To:* gluster-users@gluster.org mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org *Subject:* Backup / Restore for

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread Bobby Jacob
So is it assumed within the community that we can setup a gluster volume, but we cannot backup/restore anything. ? Nothing of this sort is being done now. ? Thanks Regards, Bobby Jacob P SAVE TREES. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From:

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread Tamas Papp
Why would you not be able to backup anything? Could you elaborate, what you mean? What do you want to do actually? Maybe we are talking about different things... tamas On 09/02/2013 09:54 AM, Bobby Jacob wrote: So is it assumed within the community that we can setup a gluster volume, but we

[Gluster-users] Rebalance question

2013-09-02 Thread Fred van Zwieten
Hi, I have a question. I am on RHS 2.0 Update 4 (will soon go to 2.1 when it's out) and I have a distributed volume (across 7 nodes) where a fair amount of directory moves take place (or directory renames). AFAIK this will most likely give new hash values and so all data needs to be moved around

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread James
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Tamas Papp tom...@martos.bme.hu wrote: Mount the volume on the backup server and backup files as the would exist locally. I do this using rsnapshot. You might want to have a look, but something like bacula is another common solution. Because gluster volumes can be

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread Fred van Zwieten
This is an interesting topic. I too am looking for a backup tool that is glusterfs friendly. I am looking at rsnapshot, but I want to use glusterfs as a backup target and rsnapshot relies heavily on hardlinks. Hardlinks are a special case in glusterfs and I am not sure if rsnapshot is the right

Re: [Gluster-users] FW: Backup / Restore for Gluster volumes.

2013-09-02 Thread James
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Fred van Zwieten fvzwie...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting topic. I too am looking for a backup tool that is glusterfs friendly. I am looking at rsnapshot, but I want to use glusterfs as a backup target and rsnapshot relies heavily on hardlinks. Hardlinks

Re: [Gluster-users] Rebalance question

2013-09-02 Thread Fred van Zwieten
Hi, I have a question. I am on RHS 2.0 Update 4 (will soon go to 2.1 when it's out) and I have a distributed volume (across 7 nodes) where a fair amount of directory moves take place (or directory renames). AFAIK this will most likely give new hash values and so all data needs to be moved

[Gluster-users] Slow Read Performance With Samba GlusterFS VFS

2013-09-02 Thread kane
Hi, First I appreciate for you all, with your last week's points mentioned in the problem I meet with slow samba vfs write performance. Then I use fastcopy software to test windows clients write performance, it tells the same performance with iozone rewrite results, reach 450MB/s each client.