This Birds of a Feather session aims to explore best practices in the backup of CephFS deployments, encourage technical exchange and highlight where the system can evolve to improve support for this crucial use-case. We encourage participants to share their experience in this area. Discussion points - Applications: i) Which backup applications have been tried? ii) Tricks to avoid iterating on every inode, e.g., recursive mtime. - Performance and configuration: Handling/controlling impact of backups on the live system. - Snapshots: i) Impact of snapshots on the live system; ii) Snapdiff efficiency; iii) Ability to export snapshots as blobs to arbitraty backends, e.g., tape; iv) Experiences with snapshot mirroring. - Integrations: OpenStack Manila.
The notes would be taken at
https://pad.ceph.com/p/cephalocon24-backups-bof
