Re: [vserver] RE : [vserver] VPS Restoration using Symantec BackupExec

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu 17 Apr 2014 - 01:32:20 BST
Message-ID: <20140417003220.GF6667@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:10:25PM +0000, DLASALLE@barreau.qc.ca wrote:

> Envoyé depuis un mobile Samsung.

That explains it :)

thanks,
Herbert

> -------- Message d'origine --------
> De : Herbert Poetzl
> Date :04/16/2014 19:00 (GMT-05:00)
> À : Lasalle Daniel
> Cc : vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
> Objet : Re: [vserver] VPS Restoration using Symantec BackupExec

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:18:31PM +0000, DLASALLE@barreau.qc.ca wrote:
>> Hello,

>> My organisation has been using Symantec Backup Exec for doing
>> the backups of our VPSes. Now our server died and we are having
>> troubles restoring the backup from the tape. Would anybody have
>> any experience with such setup?

> Maybe you could elaborate what the problems are?

>> If not, would you happen to have the best practices for
>> backing up Vserver VPSes on tape (which is hosted on a Windows
>> machine)?

> I wouldn't think of putting the tape drive on a windows
> machine, but to make that work you probably want to have
> an archive file per guest, like a .tar so that the windows
> platform only has to backup this single file (similar for
> incremental backups).

>> All that I am able to find are rsync and scp/nfs solutions.

> Any archive format should be fine, as long as it handles
> attributes and ownerships properly.

> For tape (on Unix/Linux) besides the obvious tar, there
> is also cpio and for ext2/3 dump/restore, which all can
> handle tape drives properly.

> HTH,
> Herbert

>> Lastly, yes, I am fully aware of all of the technical constraints.

>> Thanks,
>> [cid:image001.gif@01CE6688.98AF8C30]

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>> P Avant l'impression, pensez-y... Est-ce vraiment nécessaire?
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