Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread Anton Cohen
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

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> 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

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> 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

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> 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

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread Brian Mathis
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

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread Anton Cohen
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

[lopsa-discuss] How do you backup your VMs

2012-05-07 Thread 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 strategy for all the VMs The critical VMs are replicated using MySQL replication, but that's only a few. How do others approa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Looking for help with troff documents

2012-05-07 Thread Jonathan Barber
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

[lopsa-discuss] backups for 4 TB server on isolated network

2012-05-07 Thread Jeremy Charles
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