I’ve been asked a couple of times how Cinder’s Incremental Backup works and what do I actually mean when I say we need to rework Ceph’s Backup driver to support Cinder’s Incremental Backup. So I’ll try to explain both in this post. Backup Workflow Incremental Backup in Cinder was designed with Swift back-end in mind, so reference implementation is versatile enough to handle size limitations on the back-end, and new drivers can relatively easily extend from this implementation to support […]