OpenStack Backup/Restore and DR (Freezer) in Launchpad

Registered 2014-07-30 by Fausto Marzi

Freezer is a Python tool that helps you automate incremental data backup and restore in OpenStack Swift.
Backups can be executed on file system, MongoDB, MySQL with LVM snapshot and encryption support.

Code-Review:
- https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/freezer
- https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/freezer-api
- https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/freezer-dr
- https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/python-freezerclient
- https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/freezer-web-ui

Source Code:
- https://github.com/openstack/freezer
- https://github.com/openstack/freezer-api
- https://github.com/openstack/freezer-dr
- https://github.com/openstack/freezer-web-ui
- https://github.com/openstack/python-freezerclient

Documentation:
- https://github.com/openstack/freezer/blob/master/README.rst
- https://github.com/openstack/freezer-api/blob/master/README.rst
- https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Freezer

The following features are avaialble:

- Backup your filesystem using snapshot to swift
- Strong encryption supported: AES-256-CFB
- Backup your file system tree directly (without volume snapshot)
- Backup your journaled MongoDB directory tree using lvm snap to swift
- Backup MySQL DB with lvm snapshot
- Restore your data automatically from Swift to your file system
- Low storage consumption as the backup are uploaded as a stream
- Flexible Incremental backup policy
- Data is archived in GNU Tar format
- Data compression with gzip
- Remove old backup automatically according the provided parameters
- Nova Engine for backing up nova instances
- Cinder Engines (os-brick based engine, api-like engine, fs-like engine)
- Rsync engine (v1, v2)
- Tenant Backups engine.