decafranky
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Hi,
Now we are making backups on reseller base with the DA feature.
We are migrating to the VMWARE Server (now for free! : www.vmware.com).
There is only one (big) problem with the free vmware server solution: you can't take live snapshots, instead virtual machine should be turn off before taking an snaphot (= hd image of that virtual server).
So we are looking for a client backup solution.
Virtual machines have ext3 partitions.
We need to could take full backups when the server is still live 24/7. Backup up files is not an option, should be a full bare-metal on cluster based backup.
I have found one open source (and free) solution: www.mondorescue.org.
A commercial solution : Acronis TrueImage Linux Server (http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISLin/)
Anyone can give me some advise what's the best solution? I prefere mondorescue because it's free, acronis is expensive (699$/server).
Other backup software?
Reason for live hd images is simple: if a (virtual) server crashes, it's very easy and fast (it takes only a copple of minutes) to start a new virtual machine on another server and restore that hd image into it.
Franky
Now we are making backups on reseller base with the DA feature.
We are migrating to the VMWARE Server (now for free! : www.vmware.com).
There is only one (big) problem with the free vmware server solution: you can't take live snapshots, instead virtual machine should be turn off before taking an snaphot (= hd image of that virtual server).
So we are looking for a client backup solution.
Virtual machines have ext3 partitions.
We need to could take full backups when the server is still live 24/7. Backup up files is not an option, should be a full bare-metal on cluster based backup.
I have found one open source (and free) solution: www.mondorescue.org.
A commercial solution : Acronis TrueImage Linux Server (http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISLin/)
Anyone can give me some advise what's the best solution? I prefere mondorescue because it's free, acronis is expensive (699$/server).
Other backup software?
Reason for live hd images is simple: if a (virtual) server crashes, it's very easy and fast (it takes only a copple of minutes) to start a new virtual machine on another server and restore that hd image into it.
Franky
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