Using the Cloud for Backup: Islandora

Mark Leggott, University of PEI/DiscoveryGardenCNI 2012 - Washington DC

Islandora 101

• Drupal+Fedora framework from UPEI

• Flexible UI on top of Fedora + other apps

• Deployed in 100+ institutions, growing

• Leverage DuraCloud(DC)/DuraSync(DCS)

• Services by objects/collections

• “Single Button” restore of damaged assets

DGI Examples• DGI 5 Islandora clients using DC + backup

• Largest has 2 TB of mostly image J2Ks

• full site (objects/MySQL/Drupal) with DC and DCStool using Continuous mode

• + backup up using Zmanda/S3: D/W/M/Y

• + experimental backup to Glacier

• 3 sites using DC/DCS for full backup of IR

Islandora Vault Module

• New module for managing DC+CS services

• “Vault” component on Manage Tab

• Manage CS sets/tasks for Collections

• View Health Check at Object level (e.g. check for matching checksums)

• Defining default actions for mismatches

Vault Setup

Collection Restore

Object Health

Reports

Next Steps

• Tighter integration and more UI functions

• Automated recovery (Auto vs Manual)

• Full Fedora/Collection restore

• Support for private DuraCloud instances

• Add integration with Glacier+