OpenStack Compute (nova)

Quiesce admin action for consistent snapshot

Registered by Tomoki Sekiyama on 2014-01-31

Currently we need to quiesce filesystems (fsfreeze) manually before snapshotting cinder volumes attached to active instances to create consisten backups. This should be automated when QEMU Guest Agent is enabled.

To achieve the automated quiescing, Nova should expose an admin action to quiesce the guest file systems for Cinder.

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Status:: Not started

Approver:: None

Priority:: Undefined

Drafter:: Tomoki Sekiyama

Direction:: Needs approval

Assignee:: Tomoki Sekiyama

Definition:: New

Series goal:: None

Implementation:: Unknown

Milestone target:: None

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Removed from next, as next is now reserved for near misses from the last milestone --johnthetubaguyRemoved from next, as next is now reserved for near misses from the last milestone --johnthetubaguy

If you are still working on this, please re-submit via nova-specs. If not, please mark as obsolete, and add a quick comment to describe why. --johnthetubaguy (20th April 2014)

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/quiesce-admin-action,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/128112
Quiesce admin action for consistent snapshot

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