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[Bernard Golden <bernard.golden@xxxxxxxxx>]

Amen. This would, from an user perspective, simplify things enormously, and a complete package would aid organizations to get back up and running at a time (disaster recovery) when things are challenging and chaotic.

Bernard Golden
bernard.golden@xxxxxxxxx




On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Tim Bell wrote:

> As regards the backup/snapshots....
> 
>> From our use cases on service consolidation for production servers, we'd like to be able to
> 
> - support frequent snap shots, ideally to also make those snapshots easily available in Glance for test machine clone operations
> - replicate those snapshots to other sites to allow for disaster recovery
> - allow long term archiving to S3 such as historical images for data preservation
> 
> Being able to associate a VM image snapshot with a block storage snapshot so that the entire state of a machine and its external volumes can be recovered together would be very useful for these disaster recovery scenarios.
> 
> Tim Bell
> CERN
> 
> 
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