[sheepdog] effective storing backups and deduplication

[Liu Yuan]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 03:57:32PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hi! I need to store user backups and allows to download it. I see in
> google that sheepdog supports deduplication, but can't find info in
> sheepdog docs about it. Does sheepdog support deduplication?

This deduplication is for SD's internal use, to store its own cluster snapshot.

> Also i think not use cluster wide snapshots because i want to dedicate
> backup server from other sheepdog nodes, so i need to copy user vdi
> from compute node to backup node. Does somebody can say how can i do
> that in optimal way?
> 
> Thanks!

How about sheepdog's RESTful storage to store user's backup and downloading?

More detail see

https://github.com/sheepdog/sheepdog/wiki/HTTP-Simple-Storage

Thanks
Yuan