On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Brian Mathis <
brian.mathis+lo...@betteradmin.com> wrote:
> Your data is the most important asset your company has, and it's
> really disturbing to me that so many IT people are will to throw it up
> into the cloud just for some marginal cost savings.
>
What is th
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Brian Mathis
>
> There's also no question that some industries absolutely cannot and
> will not EVER place their data on third party cloud servers. These
Y'know. Unless it's encrypted.
Or, as in
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Anton Cohen
>
> Side note, MySQL replication isn't backup, you still need to backup the DB
> (with mysqldump or LVM snapshots).
+1
mysql replication is redundancy, not backup. If some script or a b
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bayer
>
> We are moving into the VM area, using KVM on Redhat 5/6 systems.
>
> Our VMs are a mix of disk image files, and LVM partitions.
>
> On thing I don't have yet is a good backup strat
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Anton Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jonathan Bayer
> wrote:
>>
>> I should say that the main servers are backed up by our hosting provider
>> (Rackspace), who wants nothing to do with the VMs
>
>
> Sorry this doesn't answer your question, I'm jus
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jonathan Bayer <
jba...@bayertechnologygroup.com> wrote:
> I should say that the main servers are backed up by our hosting provider
> (Rackspace), who wants nothing to do with the VMs
Sorry this doesn't answer your question, I'm just curious. Rackspace offers
Hyb
We are moving into the VM area, using KVM on Redhat 5/6 systems.
Our VMs are a mix of disk image files, and LVM partitions.
On thing I don't have yet is a good backup strategy for all the VMs
The critical VMs are replicated using MySQL replication, but that's only
a few.
How do others approa
On 3 May 2012 16:21, John BORIS wrote:
[snip]
> I was wondering if there is anyone on the list that had dealt with
> troff documents and came across a profiler or some other script or code
> highlighter that you could run the document through that would tell you
> certain things are missing or ou
Hello fellow sysadmins...
I have a 2 TB file server (expected to grow to 4 TB) that's on a rather
isolated network, so it doesn't have access to the enterprise backup system.
When it was a 1 TB file server, a teammate bought a 1 TB NAS and used that as a
target for a Windows backup every weeken