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 rados -- rados object storage utility
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.. program:: rados

Synopsis
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| **rados** [ -m *monaddr* ] [ mkpool | rmpool *foo* ] [ -p | --pool
  *pool* ] [ -s | --snap *snap* ] [ -i *infile* ] [ -o *outfile* ]
  *command* ...


Description
===========

**rados** is a utility for interacting with a Ceph object storage
cluster (RADOS), part of the Ceph distributed file system.


Options
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.. option:: -p pool, --pool pool

   Interact with the given pool. Required by most commands.

.. option:: -s snap, --snap snap

   Read from the given pool snapshot. Valid for all pool-specific read operations.

.. option:: -i infile

   will specify an input file to be passed along as a payload with the
   command to the monitor cluster. This is only used for specific
   monitor commands.

.. option:: -o outfile

   will write any payload returned by the monitor cluster with its
   reply to outfile. Only specific monitor commands (e.g. osd getmap)
   return a payload.

.. option:: -c ceph.conf, --conf=ceph.conf

   Use ceph.conf configuration file instead of the default
   /etc/ceph/ceph.conf to determine monitor addresses during startup.

.. option:: -m monaddress[:port]

   Connect to specified monitor (instead of looking through ceph.conf).


Global commands
===============

:command:`lspools`
  List object pools

:command:`df`
  Show utilization statistics, including disk usage (bytes) and object
  counts, over the entire system and broken down by pool.

:command:`mkpool` *foo*
  Create a pool with name foo.

:command:`rmpool` *foo*
  Delete the pool foo (and all its data)


Pool specific commands
======================

:command:`get` *name* *outfile*
  Read object name from the cluster and write it to outfile.

:command:`put` *name* *infile*
  Write object name to the cluster with contents from infile.

:command:`rm` *name*
  Remove object name.

:command:`ls` *outfile*
  List objects in given pool and write to outfile.

:command:`lssnap`
  List snapshots for given pool.

:command:`mksnap` *foo*
  Create pool snapshot named *foo*.

:command:`rmsnap` *foo*
  Remove pool snapshot names *foo*.

:command:`bench` *seconds* *mode* [ -b *objsize* ] [ -t *threads* ]
  Benchmark for seconds. The mode can be write or read. The default
  object size is 4 KB, and the default number of simulated threads
  (parallel writes) is 16.


Examples
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To view cluster utilization::

       rados df

To get a list object in pool foo sent to stdout::

       rados -p foo ls -

To write an object::

       rados -p foo put myobject blah.txt

To create a snapshot::

       rados -p foo mksnap mysnap

To delete the object::

       rados -p foo rm myobject

To read a previously snapshotted version of an object::

       rados -p foo -s mysnap get myobject blah.txt.old


Availability
============

**rados** is part of the Ceph distributed file system. Please refer to
the Ceph wiki at http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki for more information.


See also
========

:doc:`ceph <ceph>`\(8)