Re: [Moosefs-users] Backing up MFS metadata

[Laurent W. <lw...@hy...>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:07:28 +0300
Stas Oskin <sta...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Is there any recommended procedure how to back-up MFS meta-data?
> 
> I.e:
> 
> * Where to backup from - master or logger?
> * Backup the flat files, or use some mfs tool?
> * Should I stop the logger before?
> 
> Thanks!
Hmmmmm I guess I'll answer a bit aside your question.
I'd use drbd as a backup :)
Anyway, it may be possible to deploy several metaloggers, but I don't
know the code enough to know if it works. Could be a nice feature to
implement, until high availability is available by default.
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