From a fundamental viewpoint, what is the difference between manually
copying VMs from the server to the backup system and using a
commercial product, being SRM or third-party?
What might we be missing manual vs third-party (or SRM) product?
I am not looking at/for assumptions of how the
On 10/31/2014 1:22 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
If we manually preserved, and lost the VM or the server, and rebuilt
with original media, could we simply copy the manually preserved
copies back over and be operational again, or are the add-on options
the only way to make this happen?
The former.
One word on modern backup strategy: encryption. Cloud services like CrashPlan
take care of this automatically; traditional tape-backup solutions usually
didn't, in the past.
I don't know anything about VMware-specific utilities (for VMs I just back up
the instance like any other system, and make
On 10/31/2014 5:43 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
One word on modern backup strategy: encryption.
I disagree in the general case. Anything that adds unnecessary
complexity to a backup system is a failure begging to bite you.
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On 10/31/2014 06:14 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 10/31/2014 5:43 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
One word on modern backup strategy: encryption.
I disagree in the general case. Anything that adds unnecessary
complexity to a backup system is a failure begging to bite you.
I agree here. If you provide
