Backup solutions for Linux servers

[Allen, Jack]

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Subject: Re: Backup solutions for Linux servers

Not to hijack the thread from the OP, but I would be curious to see what
people are doing for a bare metal backups, since most of the actual data
I
have are usually rsynced.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Vincent Van der Kussen <
Vincent.VanderKussen at btr-services.be> wrote:

> Do you need bare metal recovery or just the ability to restore
files...
>
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> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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> Behalf Of cliff here [c4ifford at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:21 PM
> To: bob.sauvage at gmx.fr; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Backup solutions for Linux servers
>
> I've tried a program called mondo to make .iso snapshots of servers -
> however we had problems to get it to work with LVMs and I haven't
revisited
> it in a while.
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Bob Sauvage <bob.sauvage at gmx.fr>
wrote:
>
> > Hi *,
> >
> > I would like to know what is your favorite solution to backup your
Linux
> > servers.
> >
> > Do you use rsnapshot ? Do you backup your data's on the cloud (via a
> SaaS)
> > ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bob !
> >
> >
[Jack Allen] We require our customers that use Linux configuration to
use Storix for Bare Meta Restore and then IBM's TSM or Veritas NetBackup
for daily backups of the OS and database. The database backup is written
by us using the vendors API.