Backing up and restoring object storage

Snapshots are a good way to protect data from various errors and failures. Moving them to a separate backup storage system can provide better protection against catastrophic failures of the entire storage system and might even allow the data to be stored at a lower cost. This section describes the manual steps that are needed to back up and restore the object storage and its configuration information.

In the examples, the steps to back up the Keystone configuration files and database are not given. That is the user's responsibility. You can use OpenStack backup procedures for this task. For more information on OpenStack backup procedures, see Chapter 14. Backup and Recovery.