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<section xml:id="ceph-backup-driver"
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<title>Ceph backup driver</title>
<para>The Ceph backup driver backs up volumes of any type to a
Ceph back-end store. The driver can also detect
whether the volume to be backed up is a Ceph RBD
volume, and if so, it tries to perform incremental and
differential backups.</para>
<para>For source Ceph RBD volumes, you can perform backups
within the same Ceph pool (not recommended). You can also perform
backups between different Ceph pools and between
different Ceph clusters.</para>
<para>At the time of writing, differential backup support in
Ceph/librbd was quite new. This driver attempts a
differential backup in the first instance. If the
differential backup fails, the driver falls back to
full backup/copy.</para>
<para>If incremental backups are used, multiple backups of the
same volume are stored as snapshots so that minimal
space is consumed in the backup store. It takes far
less time to restore a volume than to take a full
copy.</para>
<note>
<para>Block Storage enables you to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Restore to a new volume, which
is the default and recommended
action.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Restore to the original volume
from which the backup was taken.
The restore action takes a full
copy because this is the safest
action.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</note>
<para>To enable the Ceph backup driver, include the following
option in the <filename>cinder.conf</filename>
file:</para>
<programlisting>backup_driver = cinder.backup.drivers.ceph</programlisting>
<para>The following configuration options are available for
the Ceph backup driver.</para>
<xi:include
href="../../../common/tables/cinder-backups_ceph.xml"/>
<para>This example shows the default options for the Ceph
backup driver.</para>
<programlisting>backup_ceph_conf=/etc/ceph/ceph.conf
backup_ceph_user = cinder
backup_ceph_chunk_size = 134217728
backup_ceph_pool = backups
backup_ceph_stripe_unit = 0
backup_ceph_stripe_count = 0</programlisting>
</section>