Snapshots on XFS

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Moe
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Snapshots on XFS

Post by Moe » 2018/09/18 05:56:17

Dear

I have a server with an XFS volume, and is required to enable snapshot or a snapshot-like kind of backup on it.

The volume has to stays as XFS or ext3 , can't be brtfs nor zfs

Is there's a way or a 3rd party tool that can sync/backup in a snapshot-like manner ?

Any advice is appreciated

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Re: Snapshots on XFS

Post by tunk » 2018/09/18 11:31:25

You could do a web search with these keywords: rsync snapshot
I haven't used it, but you could try rsnapshot which can be installed with yum install rsnapshot after installing the epel repo.

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Re: Snapshots on XFS

Post by TrevorH » 2018/09/18 16:07:52

Is your xfs filesystem on an LVM Logical Volume?
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Re: Snapshots on XFS

Post by Moe » 2018/09/18 18:39:47

TrevorH wrote:
2018/09/18 16:07:52
Is your xfs filesystem on an LVM Logical Volume?
Nope, it is on a LUN made from a raid combining 12 drives in a raid 6 setup.

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Re: Snapshots on XFS

Post by MartinR » 2018/09/19 08:58:23

For around 19 years I looked after systems using XFS, first under IRIX, then under Linux. To be honest, we never bothered with snapshots, running xfsdump (and sometimes xfsrestore) performed well. We used a pretty standard (if old fashioned) scheme: L0 every four Wednesdays, other Wednesdays were L1, L2 and L3. Thursday through Tuesday were L4-L9. The MySQL database was dumped to a text file in advance of the main backup. Your milage may vary though, and if you are sure you need to use snapshots have a look at https://n2ws.com/blog/how-to-guides/con ... em-and-ebs. See also https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... kuprestore.

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