On 05/10/2013 02:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 10.05.2013 20:46, schrieb Digimer:
We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We've been asked by many to provide backup, which is something we don't want to do in house. So we started looking for backup companies to partner with. The problem is that the ones we've found who support RHEL won't support CentOS
what needs to be "supported" - CentOS is *binary compatible*
what sorts of "backup" a backup can be anything, data, OS-images, snapshots, rsync....
if it is only *data* simply setup a SAN storage with a virtual machine per customer and stup rsnapshot at your own, if it is not liked inhouse rent a rack whereever
I know that it's binary compatible and that the software that works for RHEL will work for CentOS. What I mean by "supported" is a company who will see the host OS is CentOS and not throw up their hands and say "sorry, not supported!".
My fear is that, a year from now, something will go wrong and the company we choose won't help us. We're not a backup company and we have no interest in becoming one, either. So we want to find a company to partner with who will see "CentOS" and still help us. So in short, this is a political, not technical question.
As for what to backup; We're just looking for application data backup, not OS data.