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Our standard for doing MySQL backups is to replicate production servers to a slave server and dump those on a hourly or daily basis. We have a pretty complex system for dealing with code, and we back up temporal data -- files, etc. -- locally to a NAS and then to S3. We have almost everything on virtual servers that use a HA SAN for most storage (home directories are on the NAS). The virtualization system features automatic failover. It actually works. All of this makes for a pretty durable infrastructure. Thanks, Cary On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This might be slightly off topic, but I am sure most of you do (or > have some who does) some backups of your servers, so who better to > ask? > > I am doing a review of our backup procedures and I am looking at > different "enterprise" backup software (both open source and > proprietary). I use enterprise a bit loosely because a lot of what I > see that is enterprise means more servers than we have. In some > respects maybe I mean midrange. Basically I would like a centralized > platform for backing up all of our servers so I am not managing the > backups for each server separately. We are looking to primarily to > back up to disk with either cloud, tape, or remote disk for redundant > off-site backups.. Anyway, what I am wondering if anyone has any > particular backup software suite that they really like. While I am > asking, if you have a storage device that goes with your backup > solution you like, I wouldn't mind hearing about it as well. > > A little about our environment. We have 15-20 servers. The O/S are > about equally split between RHEL, Ubuntu, and Windows. 2 of the RHRL > servers have an Oracle database, most of the other Linux and Windows > servers have MySQL however they do not need to be 24/7 so I could do a > cold backup of the databases and thus do not require hot database > backups. Total storage s about 4TB right now but likely to double in > the next 3 years, > > Edward > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com