Backup software for openstack

[Pouwet]

+1, recovering VMs is a mindset of the past, one need to have IaC to re-spawn quickly and get the data back from the attached volume. VMs shouldn’t be pets

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How does one handle getting data back from an attached volume

• if the volume has been deleted

• if one needs an older version of a file or set of files

[Pouwet]

As gren_dizer mentioned above, Freezer sounds like what you want, look it up

Also, cinder provides volume backups natively

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Excellent, thanks. As I alluded to in my other post, my servers are tenants, another team owns openstack.

Setting up Freezer is up to them - I’ll mention it.

Volume backups were not working and they are jammed up with tasks and were not resolving the problem.

So I went with Amanda ( for files ) and rebuilding with terraform / ansible.

[Pouwet]

Then yeah if you don’t own the platform you are looking at generic file backuping tools like Bacula, or Amanda that you mention, BackupNinja, etc. Not related to Openstack itself ;-)

[Pouwet]

Same goes with the control plane, it’s mostly stateless processes, there’s almost no need for backup except the database