Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:53:55 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > There's a handy web interface. > If the machine to be backed up isn't reachable, it tries again later (1 > hour by default). > You can configure blackout periods, so no backups will take place > during certain hours. > You can override the bla

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:33:39PM +0200, B wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion > > to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the > > difference? > > First,

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Don't replicate the VMs. Have separate VMs built using the same configuration. Use a configuration management solution (e.g. puppet) to define the configuration of your VMs. Replicate *data* instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion > to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the > difference? First, backups are nightly compressed and same files are hardlinked, so keepi

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
@B please ignore my first message i forgot to add the list. Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the difference? actually i am asking because i and the software both use same utility then what is

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:58:48 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: I would use backuppc through ssh with the rsync method; this way, your VM would be fully reconstructible, band width wouldn't be clobbered and backup(s) wouldn't take much place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, we are planning to rent a new server with RAID1 in the cloud and the purpose of this server will be Qemu KVM virtualization. everything is fine but the show stopper is Disaster recovery Site. i think of 4 options and all of them are not upto my requirement and limits. 1st, Option was D