Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Don't replicate the VMs. Have separate VMs built using the same configuration. Use a configuration management solution (e.g. puppet) to define the configuration of your VMs. Replicate *data* instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:33:39PM +0200, B wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the difference?

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-13 Thread Bzzzz
On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:53:55 -0400 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: There's a handy web interface. If the machine to be backed up isn't reachable, it tries again later (1 hour by default). You can configure blackout periods, so no backups will take place during certain hours. You can

need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, we are planning to rent a new server with RAID1 in the cloud and the purpose of this server will be Qemu KVM virtualization. everything is fine but the show stopper is Disaster recovery Site. i think of 4 options and all of them are not upto my requirement and limits. 1st, Option was

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:58:48 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: I would use backuppc through ssh with the rsync method; this way, your VM would be fully reconstructible, band width wouldn't be clobbered and backup(s) wouldn't take much place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
@B please ignore my first message i forgot to add the list. Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the difference? actually i am asking because i and the software both use same utility then what is

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the difference? First, backups are nightly compressed and same files are