From f0d858f0a77ccff3d4a71fca37823882bf135670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Vrable Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:02:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README with information about remote storage. --- README | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 9c42cf7..9871798 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -136,6 +136,29 @@ should be restored (this directory should initially be empty). specified, the entire snapshot is restored. +Remote Backups +-------------- + +The cumulus-util command can operate directly on remote backups. The +--store parameter accepts, in addition to a raw disk path, a URL. +Supported URL forms are + file:///path Equivalent to /path + s3://bucket/path Storage in Amazon S3 + (Expects the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY + environment variables to be set appropriately) + +To copy backup snapshots from one storage area to another, the +cumulus-sync command can be used, as in + $ cumulus-sync file:///cumulus s3://my-bucket/cumulus + +Support for directly writing backups to a remote location (without using +a local staging directory and cumulus-sync) is slightly more +experimental, but can be achieved by replacing + --dest=/cumulus +with + --upload-script="cumulus-store s3://my-bucket/cumulus" + + Alternate Restore Tool ---------------------- -- 2.20.1