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Thanks Cary. It is interesting to hear what you are doing. Edward Sent from my iPhone On Oct 27, 2011, at 20:24, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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