If you're maintaining more then a couple of linux machines, I highly recommend setting up a cfengine server. Besides the fact that it greatly helps with disaster recovery, it centralizes all of your configuration changes for your servers. I personally maintain 60+ servers using cfengine, and on the cfengine server, all of the configuration files for those 60+ servers takes up 50MB (18MB when compressed). Then on the servers themselves, I backup the "data" only (MySQL, email queues, etc.)
Without a cfengine server, I would end up wasting GIGs of backup space, and a LOT of time jumping onto each machine to make a change. With cfengine, I can make a change and it automatically gets sent out to multiple machines without me having to do anything. Don't get me wrong, setting up a cfengine server, does take time and planning, but the benefits of it are 100% completely worth it! In the end it saves a lot of time and money. Just my personal experience, and opinion... Craig On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Andrew Steele wrote: > A quick question for those with a bit more experience with running > Virtual Servers... > > Having got ours more or less doing what we want, we are now keen to > backup the data we are holding. > > Clearly, if the VS was to become fairly full then it would be difficult > to backup everything to the 4gb backup space we have available. > > So my question is this... > > What backup routines/protocols do others use or recommend to minimise the > hassle should the VS crash and need to be restored from backup. > Basically which directories do others recommend be backed up and by what > means are most doing this to maximise the the benefits of the storage > space available. > > We have a 20gb VS with 4gb backup space and will need to back up the SQL > data at a minimum plus the optional stuff we've done to configure the > server. > > Anyone have an experience to share? > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users > _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
