Why does the the developer get to dictate... oh never mind. Tell the developer that you need a backup/restore plan as part of the turn over to production and have such documentation be added to the scope of work for (his buddy :) the consultant along with an actual test of the backup restore plan.
Don't try and blindly design the plan yourself, make the people who put you in the corner responsible for deliverable along with you. You are also going to need a plan for updating CentOS in a manner that won't break your application too so I'd get that documentation as well while you're at it. Despite many myths, Linux has security and software updates as well. As to the VMware backup being enough? Might be, but how will you know without a documented backup/restore plan of the application itself? Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I’m venturing into the big unknown . . . . . . . world of Linux and > the reason is, we are setting up an e-commerce site and the developer > insists on using Linux for the webserver. So I hired a consultant and had > the server up and running in an afternoon and they are now loading the web > software as we speak. > > > > So my question is about backup. I’m running this in VMware 4.0 and my > backup Software is BackupExec 2010 R2. I have the Agent for VMware > infrastructure and can back up the VM that way, just did it and it worked. > > Now my question is would this snapshot backup be sufficient or should I get > the Agent for Linux and be able to do an GRT backup? > > > > What are your suggestions? > > > -- > Stefan Jafs > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
