The dds replication scheme is like ddsnap, just simpler, dumber and entirely in userspace. It builds around the dds utility, provided by OpenSVC and available from the OpenSVC repositories. This tool parses the LVM2 snapshots copy-on-write table to identify changed chunks since snapshot creation and gather fresh data from the origin or from a newer snapshot of the same origin. OpenSVC uses this low-level feature-set to implement binary-delta incremental logical volume replication.
Source and targets maintain a state file to identify the last incremental synchronization done properly. This state is used to check that the deltas application sequence is not broken. If broken, alerts are emited and a full sync must be scheduled.
dds reads the snap1 (oldest) snapshot cow table. For each changed chunk, fetch chunk data from snap2. In the diagram, chunk1 has not changed since snap2 creation, so data is actually read from origin, whereas chunk4 has changed since snap2 creation, so data is read from snap2 cow segment.
In other words, the binary delta file contains all data changed between snap1 and snap2 creation times, plus the mapping table keeping track of each chunk offset in the origin.
After succesful delta application on targets, snap1 is removed and snap2 is renamed snap1. Ready for the next incremental sync.
[sync#3] # # Binary deltas based replication for Linux LVM. # ;type = dds # # 'src' # source logical volume. Mandatory. Points the origin of the snapshots to # replicate from. # ;src = /dev/mapper/unxtstsvc02-data # # 'dst' # target file or block device. Optional. Defaults to src. Points the media # to replay the binary-delta received from source node to. This media must have # a size superior or equal to source. # ;dst = /tmp/dds.img # # 'target' # Mandatory. Accepted values are 'drpnodes', 'nodes' or both, whitespace-separated. # Points the target nodes to replay the binary-deltas on. Be warned that starting # the service on a target node without a 'stop-syncupdate-start cycle, will break # the synchronization, so this mode is usually restricted to drpnodes sync, and # should not be used to replicate data between nodes with automated services failover. # ;target = drpnodes # # 'snap_size' # Optional. Default to 10% of origin. In MB, rounded to physical extent boundaries # by lvm tools. # Size of the snapshots created by OpenSVC to extract binary deltas from. Opensvc # creates at most 2 snapshots : one short-lived to gather changed data from, and one # long-lived to gather changed chunks list from. Volume groups should have the # necessary space always available. # ;snap_size = 4 # # 'delta_store' # Optional. Defaults to /opt/opensvc/var. # Points the directory where deltas are generated and pushed to. There should be # enough space there to host one delta on the source and the targets. It is a # good practice to use a service-dedicated logical volume as a delta store to # avoid breaking other services replications when a store gets full. # ;delta_store = /var/tmp ;sync_min_delay = 1450 ;sync_max_delay = 1
# /opt/opensvc/etc/unxtstsvc01 syncfullsync * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - lvcreate -s -n data_osvc_snap1 -L 4M /dev/unxtstsvc02/data * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - update state file with snap uuid HcJj5t-lPHf-2Jw6-6iLt-MUdf-UKby-LkVYJm * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - dd if=/dev/unxtstsvc02/data_osvc_snap1 bs=1M | /usr/bin/ssh vm5 dd bs=1M of=/tmp/dds.img 32+0 records in 32+0 records out 33554432 bytes (34 MB) copied, 26.6035 s, 1.3 MB/s 0+2626 records in 0+2626 records out 33554432 bytes (34 MB) copied, 6.60506 seconds, 5.1 MB/s * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - /usr/bin/scp /opt/opensvc/var/sync#3_dds_state vm5:/opt/opensvc/var/sync#3_dds_state
# etc/unxtstsvc01 syncupdate * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - lvcreate -s -n data_osvc_snap2 -L 4M /dev/unxtstsvc02/data * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - dds --extract --cow /dev/mapper/unxtstsvc02-data_osvc_snap1-cow --source /dev/unxtstsvc02/data_osvc_snap2 -v --dest /opt/opensvc/var/unxtstsvc02-data.delta * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - /usr/bin/scp /opt/opensvc/var/unxtstsvc02-data.delta vm5:/opt/opensvc/var/unxtstsvc02-data.delta * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - /usr/bin/ssh vm5 dds -v --merge --cow /opt/opensvc/var/unxtstsvc02-data.delta --dest /tmp/dds.img * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - /usr/bin/scp /opt/opensvc/var/sync#3_dds_state vm5:/opt/opensvc/var/sync#3_dds_state * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - lvremove -f /dev/unxtstsvc02/data_osvc_snap1 * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - lvrename unxtstsvc02 data_osvc_snap2 data_osvc_snap1 * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - update state file with snap uuid gO9o05-Mmdp-lUDS-HVSQ-lpLd-Eq6Q-CPClcc * UNXTSTSVC01.SYNC#3 - INFO - /usr/bin/scp /opt/opensvc/var/sync#3_dds_state vm5:/opt/opensvc/var/sync#3_dds_state