It depends on what type of backups the BUE is taking, if they're transactional or crash consistent, without the agent I believe they will be crash consistent, so you will be able to recover the entire server but you might be missing some data. You can either buy the Linux agent (that would be the best since you already are using BUE for the backups), or ask the DEV for a backup plan.
I do a simple script on my Linux VM's here that dumps SQL, take a copy of the WWW directory and tar's it up into a ball that gets copied to a location on the file server where BUE scoops it up for backup since we don't currently used the VM Agent for BUE. This makes my backups server agnostic, I can recover them by basically building a new Linux VM and un tarring the backups with a SQL import. Most backup companies are moving or already there with transactional full VM backups, makes restoring a breeze. Cheers! Carlos Garcia-Moran Server / Storage Engineer Sprague Energy www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com> P: 603-430-5355 C: 857-234-0343 F: 603-430-7219 From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backing up CentOS in a Virtual Environment 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ 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
