snapper support for Ceph RBD and CephFS snapshots about snapper

[jonesmz]

I am interested in support for this.

If someone familiar with the code could point me in the right direction, I'm willing to work on a pull request to implement the first pass for this feature.

[aschnell]

Sorry, but so far there are no plans.

[BlackLotus]

Is this still not planned? Would be an interesting feature

[ls-initiatives]

CephFS snapshots are a stable feature now (since Ceph 13.2 "mimic").
At first glance it's quite simple to use :
mkdir <directory>/.snap/<snapshot-name> to create a snapshot.
rmdir <directory>/.snap/<snapshot-name> to delete it.

Would it fit in the snapper logic ?

[Hoeze]

Any updates on this?
I'm using Snapper at home and it's great. Having it for CephFS would be awesome!

[0xFEEDC0DE64]

is anyone else using cephfs just to offsite store the backups made by snapper from a (not clustered) machine like a laptop?

I have a temporary btrfs filesystem at home that I incrementally sync my snapper snapshots from my laptop to, and then I do an rsync from the btrfs received snapshot to cephfs, create a snapshot there and delete the parent btrfs snapshot on the btrfs filesystem.

laptop-btrfs with snapper -> incr send -> temporary btrfs to receive -> rsync to cephfs -> create snapshots there -> delete btrfs parent snapshot to save on storage

I dont know if this is a workaround/solution to the refusal of snapper devs to actually support such a great fs as cephfs.