<div><div dir="auto">I don't know the internals of the Linstor database system but I'd guess that it updates itself each time you do a modification onto it like for example adding or removing resources, resource groups etc.</div></div><div dir="auto">Personally I decided to virtualize the controller as it is easier for me to take frequent snapshots of it at the VM level and at the same time I can do file based backups of the database daily. For a two node cluster with just a handful of resources which do not change frequently a daily backup should suffice IMHO.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yanni</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 05:47, Ferran Alchimia <<a href="mailto:ferran.alchimia@gmail.com" target="_blank">ferran.alchimia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have a proxmox installation with two nodes, type combined. I can move the controller between them moving the /var/lib/linstor directory between them, and starting/stoping the controller.</div><div><br></div><div>The user guide talks about "regular backups" but it does not specify when does the controller database updates itself. So I would like to know if a daily backup is enough or do I have to make a backup each time I create a new storage volume for example.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your help,</div><div><br></div><div>Ferran</div></div>
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