[LUDOC-161] document backup/restore process for ZFS backing filesystems

• Type: Improvement
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Labels: release
• Assignee: Lustre Manual Triage
• Reporter: Andreas Dilger

Description

The Lustre backup/restore documentation describes how to do a backup/restore using both "tar" and "dd" for ldiskfs devices. However, the preferred mechanism for backing up and restoring ZFS filesystems is via the "zfs send" and "zfs recv" mechanism. This will preserve the ZFS dnode numbers, and all of the FID->dnode mappings in the OI files. The zfs dump/restore functionality can also be used to do incremental backups, and keep two physically-separate devices in relatively close synchronization for disaster-recovery and other purposes.

It is also not currently possible to do a file-level backup from ldiskfs and restore this into a new ZFS filesystem because there is no OI Scrub facility for ZFS OSDs, so that should be documented as unsupported until LU-7585 is resolved.

Issue Links

• is related to: LUDOC-56 Add ZFS setup and formatting information
• is related to: LU-8124 MDT zpool capacity consumed at greater rate than inode allocation
• is related to: LU-9023 Second opinion on MDT inode recovery requested
• is related to: LU-7585 Implement OI Scrub for ZFS

Comments

[nasf (Inactive)]

The steps for backup ZFS backend var ZPL by 'tar':

1) Before umount the target (MDT or OST), please enable index backup on the target. For example:

lctl set_param osd-zfs.${fsname}-MDT0000.index_backup=1

Or you can write the proc interface on the target directly:

echo 1 > /proc/fs/lustre/osd-zfs/${fsname}-MDT0000/index_backup

2) Umount the target.

3) Import the pool for the target if it is exported during the step 2). For example:

zpool import lustre-mdt1 [-d ${target_device_dir}]

4) Enable "canmount" property on the target FS. For example:

zfs set canmount=on ${fsname}-mdt1/mdt1

You also can specify the "mountpoint" property. By default, it will be /${fsname}-mdt1/mdt1

5) Mount the target as 'zfs'. For example:

zfs mount ${fsname}-mdt1/mdt1

6) Backup the data. For example:

tar jcf /tmp/target.tar.bz2 --xattrs --xattrs-include="trusted.*" -C /${fsname}-mdt1/mdt1/ .

7) Umount the target and export the pool if you want.

Please save the /tmp/target.bz2 and /tmp/target.ea. If you want to migrate system from ZFS to ldiskfs, please backup the system as the same steps.

[tom crowe]

Hi Andreas,

I would be glad to take a crack at updating the Lustre user manual to document the procedure to do a device level backup of a ZFS MDT or OST.

[Andreas Dilger]

Hi Tom,
Based on your LUG presentation today about using ZFS send/recv for migration, the process to do a backup of the ZFS MDT (or OST). Would you be interested to take a crack st updating the Lustre user manual to document the procedure to do a device level backup of a ZFS MDT or OST? It should be noted that rsync is not a workable solution for ZFS until the ZFS OI scrub is implemented.

[Joseph Gmitter (Inactive)]

Sure Andreas, I will sync up with Nathaniel and Zhiqi.

[Scott Nolin (Inactive)]

After living with this for a while, there are obviously a lot of things to consider and possibly add to any documentation on backup/restore for zfs backed filesystems.

While snapshots do work, zfs send performance can be very slow, and there is an impact on the file system.

More than just a zfs snapshot/send type recipe, some best practice recommendations are needed.

[Scott Nolin (Inactive)]

Here are my notes for a backup and restore test.

ZFS snapshots and send/receive for object backups.

This example is for combined mgs/mdt object, but the same would apply for an OST device-level backup. This example was run on on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and lustre 2.4.0.

Servers and filesystems in the example

luste2-8-25 - MGS/MDT server
lustre-meta/meta - Lustre ZFS MGS/MDT volume/filesystem on lustre2-8-25
lustre2-8-11 - OSS/OST server
lustre-ost0 - Lustre ZFS OST volume on lustre2-8-11

Backing up the object

Take a snapshot

zfs snapshot -r lustre-meta@lustre-meta-backup

"-r" means do a recursive snapshot, so this will include both the volume and the filesystem.

list existing snapshots

[root@lustre2-8-25 ~]# zfs list -t snapshot
NAME                                  USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
lustre-meta@lustre-meta-backup           0      -    30K  -
lustre-meta/meta@lustre-meta-backup      0      -   287M  -

send and store on a remote ZFS/Lustre server:

zfs send -R lustre-meta@lustre-meta-backup | ssh lustre2-8-11 zfs receive lustre-ost0/lustre-meta

note "-R" recursively sends the volume, filesystem, and preserves all properties. It is critical to preserve filesystem properties. If not using the "-R" flag, be sure to use "-p", we will show that during recovery.

Examine on remote side

[root@lustre2-8-25 ~]# ssh lustre2-8-11 zfs list -t snapshot
NAME                                              USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
lustre-ost0/lustre-meta@lustre-meta-backup           0      -  64.5K  -
lustre-ost0/lustre-meta/meta@lustre-meta-backup      0      -   605M  -

Recovery from failure.

In testing, I first corrupted the filesystem with 'dd'. You could also simply reformat it for testing.

Create a new ZFS lustre volume/filesystem with the same name.

In my test case we have a raid 10:

mkfs.lustre --fsname=cove --mgs --mdt --backfstype=zfs lustre-meta/meta mirror ssd0 ssd1 mirror ssd2 ssd3

Mount with "service start lustre"

This makes a volume called "lustre-meta" and filesystem "meta"

[root@lustre2-8-25 ~]# zfs list
NAME               USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
lustre-meta        315M   732G    30K  /lustre-meta
lustre-meta/meta   315M   732G   287M  /lustre-meta/meta

"mount" command shows:

lustre-meta/meta on /mnt/lustre/local/cove-MDT0000 type lustre (rw)

Login into lustre2-8-11 (remote target where you stored the snapshot), and send the filesystem back.

Now I will only send the filesystem back, not the whole volume (why do a whole volume? Convenient if you have multiple datasets?)

zfs send -p lustre-ost0/lustre-meta/meta@meta-backup | ssh lustre2-8-25 zfs receive lustre-meta/meta-new@recover

-p = preserve attributes, important for the lustre filesystem to mount.

Back on On lustre2-8-11 (failed metadata server), rename the filesystem to make the snapshot active.

zfs rename lustre-meta/meta lustre-meta/meta-old
cannot rename 'lustre-meta/meta': dataset is busy

oops! That didn't work. You need to unmount the filesystem so it isn't busy.
Note, this doesn't mean stop the lustre service, if you do you can't access the zfs volume.

umount /mnt/lustre/local/cove-MDT0000
zfs rename lustre-meta/meta lustre-meta/meta-old
zfs rename lustre-meta/meta-new lustre-meta/meta
zfs destroy lustre-meta/meta-old
service lustre stop
service lustre start

You should now be recovered.