Navigating the storage backup alternatives

Finding the right backup solution can be a complicated task if it is not handled from the very beginning of the private cloud design phase. Typically, backup and recovery options can be seen from different levels that vary from storage, filesystem, to application level. Most of the open source solutions in the community might help to achieve this goal, but that would require a junction of tool sets and a proper automation stack. For this reason, it is necessary to pinpoint to a simple and efficient backup and recovery solution that ensures the safety of critical production data. Prior to the Havana release, the OpenStack ecosystem had one key operational gap to provide a simple backup solution to the world that needed tweaking, home-made tools. One common option with some extensions was using heavy snapshots to compute instances and block...