rbd-mirror - Ceph daemon for mirroring RBD images
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Availability
rbd-mirror is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. Please refer
to the Ceph documentation at https://docs.ceph.com for more information.
Copyright
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dev May 22, 2025 RBD-MIRROR(8)
Description
rbd-mirror is a daemon for asynchronous mirroring of RADOS block device (rbd) images among Ceph clusters.
It replays changes to images in remote clusters in a local cluster, for disaster recovery.
It connects to remote clusters via the RADOS protocol, relying on default search paths to find ceph.conf
files, monitor addresses and authentication information for them, i.e. /etc/ceph/$cluster.conf,
/etc/ceph/$cluster.keyring, and /etc/ceph/$cluster.$name.keyring, where $cluster is the human-friendly
name of the cluster, and $name is the rados user to connect as, e.g. client.rbd-mirror.
Name
rbd-mirror - Ceph daemon for mirroring RBD images
Options
-cceph.conf,--conf=ceph.conf
Use ceph.conf configuration file instead of the default /etc/ceph/ceph.conf to determine monitor
addresses during startup.
-mmonaddress[:port]
Connect to specified monitor (instead of looking through ceph.conf).
-iID,--idID
Set the ID portion of name for rbd-mirror
-nTYPE.ID,--nameTYPE.ID
Set the rados user name for the gateway (eg. client.rbd-mirror)
--clusterNAME
Set the cluster name (default: ceph)
-d Run in foreground, log to stderr
-f Run in foreground, log to usual location
See Also
rbd(8)
Synopsis
rbd-mirror
