Freezer



Freezer is a distributed backup restore and disaster recovery as a service platform. It is designed to be multi OS (Linux, Windows, OSX, *BSD), focused on providing efficiency and flexibility for block based backups, file based incremental backups, point-in-time actions, jobs synchronization (i.e. backup synchronization over multiple nodes) and many other features. It is aimed at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds. Documentation and Code can be found at the following locations:


 * freezer-agent and scheduler Source Code
 * freezer-api API Source Code
 * Freezer Disaster Recovery
 * Freezer Horizon Web UI Source Code
 * Launchpad

Core Team

 * [PTL] Saad Zaher (szaher)
 * Vitaliy Nogin (vnogin)
 * Ruslan Aliev (raliev)
 * Fausto Marzi (daemontool)
 * Guillermo Garcia (m3m0)
 * Pierre-Arthur Mathieu (slashme)
 * Yang Yapeng (yangyapeng)

Getting Started

 * Getting Started
 * Installation
 * Running Freezer via DevStack - Coming soon

Documentation

 * Getting Started with Freezer
 * Freezer Concepts
 * Installing Freezer
 * Using Freezer
 * Backup and Restore your data
 * Administrator tasks for freezer
 * Freezer API
 * Freezer Web UI
 * Python Freezer Client
 * Freezer Troubleshooting

Contributing
A good place to start is by reading at the How_To_Contribute to OpenStack page. For information on contributing to Freezer specifically see the Getting Involved page in the developer documentation.

Discussions / Etherpads

 * Weekly meetings notes

The developers use IRC in #openstack-freezer on Freenode freenodefor development discussion.

Every Thursday there's a weekly meeting starting from 3:00 p.m. UTC on IRC room: openstack-meeting-alt

Automation Details

 * Freezer Automation (Chef) - Coming soon

Technical Details

 * Architecture
 * Detailed features list

Presentations

 * https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/freezer-the-openstack-back-up-as-a-service-platform

Roadmap

 * Freezer Roadmap

miscellaneous

 * Logo