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OpenStack Trove Essentials

By : Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar
Book Image

OpenStack Trove Essentials

By: Alok Shrivastwa, Sunil Sarat, Doug Shelley, Amrith Kumar

Overview of this book

OpenStack has become an extremely popular solution to build public and private clouds with. Database as a Service (DBaaS) enables the delivery of more agile database services at lower costs. Some other benefits of DBaaS are secure database deployments and compliance to standards and best practices. Trove is a DBaaS built on OpenStack and is becoming more popular by the day. Since Trove is one of the most recent projects of OpenStack, DBAs and system administrators can find it difficult to set up and run a DBaaS using OpenStack Trove. This book helps DBAs make that step. We start by introducing you to the concepts of DBaaS and how is it implemented using OpenStack Trove. Following this, we look at implementing OpenStack and deploying Trove. Moving on, you will learn to create guest images to be used with Trove. We then look at how to provision databases in self-service mode, and how to perform administration tasks such as backup and recovery, and fine-tuning databases. At the end of the book, we will examine some advanced features of Trove such as replication.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
OpenStack Trove Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Backing up/restoring in Trove


Trove uses backup strategies in order to back up the database. The backups are stored as defined in the storage strategy (defaults to Swift), which is at object storage system. The backup is encrypted by default to protect the data in rest.

There can be several use cases of backup and restore in Trove:

  • Cold copy of data for recovery purposes

  • Point in time snapshot in order to create a different branch of development

  • Multiple copies of the database independent of each other for purposes like auditing, running reports based on old data, and so on

The Trove system internally uses backup and restore strategies to seed the replication data (discussed in the next chapter). Let's now dive in and see how the backup/restore methodology works in Trove.