Hi Nik, The whole point of Cloud is that the applications running on them are Cloud Aware, and should be written to cope with an element of failure.
I recommend that you do regular backups of your MySQL DBs, and also Secondary Storage. You should have every VM running a Scheduled Snapshot routine, that way if you have a disaster, you can recreate your architecture, and restore VMs from Snapshots / Templates Regards Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Nik Martin [mailto:nik.mar...@nfinausa.com] Sent: 22 October 2012 16:05 To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: backup a cloudstack deployment On 10/22/2012 09:53 AM, Julien Garet wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm currently deploying CloudStack for a private IaaS cloud, and I have a > question about how and what I should back up. > I've read quite a lot of forums/blogs posts, telling I should only backup the > mysql database, and that's it... But what happens if my primary storage > servers burn ? If my secondary storage gets corrupted ? I think I can't just > tell my users : "Oh you've lost your VMs, that's so sad but I can't do > anything for you..." > > I'm planning to do backup/replication of my primary storage and secondary > storage volumes, so that I can restore entire volumes in case of big crashes. > > > What are people doing ? > > > > Julien > I depend on secondary storage and the Volume snapshotting utility to backup important VMs, but if you want more than that, you'll want to do something like backup your secondary storage to tape or a tertiary disk storage volume. But I also run dual active-active SAN, so my vm data is already on two different SAN nodes at all times, PLUS a secondary storage backup -- Regards, Nik Nik Martin VP Business Development Nfina Technologies, Inc. +1.251.243.0043 x1003 Relentless Reliability ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
