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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">for business use? ie do you want support?<br>
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Licencing might be fun....<br>
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I use the free vsphere v4 VMware ESXi at home which allows a modest 1 pc setup....not sure if that can be used in business setting.....you get no support at least, but its the best Virtualisation platform Ive come across. So I boot off a 4gb USB key with a
hardware raid 1 from 2 x 1tb disk setup and a 1 x 2 tb green disk off the motherboard for backups.<br>
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You can do db2ldif outputs, then rsync or scp those off to a small 128meg ram debian guest which is how I plan to do it.
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In terms of checkpointing or snapshoting they this tech is best described as spawn of the devil and avoided...multiple snapshots of considerable age impacts disk i/o....<br>
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<p>regards</p>
<p>Steven Jones</p>
<p>Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE</p>
<p>Victoria University, Wellington, NZ</p>
<p>0064 4 463 6272<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF751962"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> freeipa-users-bounces@redhat.com [freeipa-users-bounces@redhat.com] on behalf of bin.echo@gmail.com [bin.echo@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:14 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> freeipa-users@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Freeipa-users] backup plan<br>
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<div>Hi all,<br>
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I've been doing a bit of research on back up and restore of FreeIPA and so far the best plan seems to be "just back up everything"<br>
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That's fine except for "back up everything" doesn't lend itself to automation on a bare metal instance (which is what my primary and replica are). To be safe I would need to take the machine down rather than try to do a hot back up. (sync everything and backup
from an inactive fs of better yet unmounted fs) <br>
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That got me thinking, how about a vm? They are easy to stop, checkpoint, back up and restart.<br>
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I want to run this by everyone and see what you think:<br>
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Install a replica on a vm and then use THAT to capture "back ups". <br>
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If it looks like a reasonable idea, does anyone have a suggestion for which hypervisor would be best to use? (preferably FOSS) I only have experience with VirtualBox but I'm not sure it's up to this type of project?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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-Aaron<br>
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