What Are You Doing Right Now
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Creating end-user how-to documents.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 I'm his Iceberg Slim. Squeezing the miles out of him. In this case, years of his life.
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@coliver intentional
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Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Backups are easy, just because nobody has already scripted everything for you.... I'm working on putting something together, but don't expect it soon.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
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See https://mangolassi.it/topic/16067/nextcloud-scenario as my basis for the question.....
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
That's all available already, just normal file level backups. You just have to do some scripting to create a snapshot before doing the backup and remove it after.
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I guess most of us have been spoiled with Veeam and assume it should all be easy.
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
If you want great, solid, do-it-with-your-eyes-closed enterprise level backup, you need to pay money, no matter your hypervisor. It's as simple as that.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I guess most of us have been spoiled with Veeam and assume it should all be easy.
Veeam, Xen Orchestra... really everything. . .
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
If you want great, solid, do-it-with-your-eyes-closed enterprise level backup, you need to pay money, no matter your hypervisor. It's as simple as that.
Cough cough... xen orchestra cough cough!
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
If you want great, solid, do-it-with-your-eyes-closed enterprise level backup, you need to pay money, no matter your hypervisor. It's as simple as that.
I have no problem with paying for backups.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
If you want great, solid, do-it-with-your-eyes-closed enterprise level backup, you need to pay money, no matter your hypervisor. It's as simple as that.
Cough cough... xen orchestra cough cough!
Well if Xen is your forté, and you can justify not using a better option, go for it.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
That's all available already, just normal file level backups. You just have to do some scripting to create a snapshot before doing the backup and remove it after.
When creating a snapshot, would it be best to pause the VM first and then create snapshots and then resume?
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why KVM is the flavor of the month but not for production because of backup options....
Besides the lack of backup options like incremental VM backups. Open source, free, flexible, etc...
That's all available already, just normal file level backups. You just have to do some scripting to create a snapshot before doing the backup and remove it after.
When creating a snapshot, would it be best to pause the VM first and then create snapshots and then resume?
That is the recommended approach, and what all snapshot mechanisms do.
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I've done a ton of exports in Hyper-V but no snapshots.
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@brandon220 Opposite of me
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My favourite backup solution is SCDPM (for the Hyper-V world), but it's so expensive, making most other paid options way better.
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@wirestyle22 I always do exports to external drives as another disaster recovery copy and then take to another location.
