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Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

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CHAPTER 15<br />

Backup and Restore<br />

This chapter describes how to perform backup and restore on <strong>Lustre</strong>, and includes<br />

the following sections:<br />

■ <strong>Lustre</strong> Filesystem Backups<br />

■ Restoring from a File-level Backup<br />

■ LVM Snapshots on <strong>Lustre</strong> Target Disks<br />

15.1 <strong>Lustre</strong> Filesystem Backups<br />

<strong>Lustre</strong> provides file system backups at several levels.<br />

15.1.1 Client File System-level Backups<br />

It is possible to get a backup of <strong>Lustre</strong> file systems from a client (or many clients<br />

working parallel in different directories) with the help of user-level backup tools tar,<br />

cpio, amanda, and many other enterprise-level backup utilities. Using normal, file<br />

backup tools remains the easiest, recommended method to back up and restore data.<br />

However, due to the large size of most <strong>Lustre</strong> file systems, it is not always possible<br />

to get a complete backup. We recommend that you back up subsets of a file system.<br />

This includes subdirectories of the entire directory, filesets for a single user, files<br />

incremented by date, and so on.<br />

15-1

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