If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

From Backup/Restore as a Service to a Disaster Recovery solution

Fabrizio Fresco <fabrizio@hpe.com>December 1, 2015

Freezer

Freezer

–Backup and Restore solution

–Fully integrated with OpenStack (part of the Big Tent)

–Also works outside of an OpenStack environment

–Default solution for backup, restore and disaster recovery of the infrastructure of Helion OpenStack 2.0.

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Freezer Components

–Client side components (run on every system where backup is needed):

–Freezer-agent : executes the backup and restore actions

–Freezer-scheduler : runs the freezer-agent and talks to the freezer-api

–Server side components

–Freezer-api : REST API to access and create freezer resources

–Freezer-web-ui : orchestrate backup and restore from OpenStack Horizon

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Freezer Capabilities

Platform support

Freezer client-side components can be installed on:

- Linux based OS

- Windows

- Mac-OS

- BSD based OS

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Storage

Freezer is able to store its backup in multiple type of storage:

- OpenStack Object Storage (Swift, Ceph, …)

- SSH server

- Local directory (NFS, ISCSI, GlusterFS, …)

- More to come (Tape, …)

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Compression

Backups are compressed using the algorithm of your choice:

- GZIP

- BZIP2

- XZ

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Encryption

Optional strong encryption of the backup using AES-256

Application

Freezer supports application-aware backup to ensure consistency:

- Mysql

- MongoDB

- Microsoft SQL Server

- OpenStack Nova instance backup

- OpenStack Cinder volume backup

- More to come …

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Snapshot

Increase the consistency of your backup by using file system snapshots:

- LVM integration on Linux based OS

- Microsoft VSA snapshot on Windows OS

Behaviour :

1. Lock of the application

2. Snapshot of the directory containing data to backup is taken (< 1 second)

3. Lock release

4. Backup is taken and uploaded from the snapshot

5. Snapshot removal

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Outstanding freezer-agent features

- Low memory footprint even with big backup

- Incremental backup capabilities

- Old backup tidying

- Restore from a specific date

- Network bandwidth usage limitation

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Outstanding freezer-api features

- Jobs: Collection of backup / restore actions

Useful to backup multiple files, directory, application in one go.

- Sessions: Sync your backup on multiple servers

Useful for cluster backups

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Freezer Architecture

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Scaling Freezer Infra

Helion Architecture

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Docs… Repository… The Team…

– Official site/repository: https://github.com/openstack/freezer

– Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/freezer

– The package: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/freezer

– Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Freezer

– Roadmap: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/FreezerRoadmap

– Freezer in Helion: http://docs.hpcloud.com/#helion/bura/bura_overview.html

– Chat with the team: #openstack-freezer IRC channel on chat.freenode.net

Openstack Vancouver: https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/freezer-the-openstack-back-up-as-a-service-platform

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Thank you from the Freezer core Team! Fausto Marzi [PTL]

Fabrizio Fresco [Architect]

Guillermo Garcia

Pierre-Arthur Mathieu

Eldar Nugaev

Fabrizio Vanni

Jonas Pfannschmidt

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