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.
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Digimer lists@alteeve.ca wrote:
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.
If it is somebody else's money, and that somebody else wants support, why aren't you pointing them to RHEL in the first place?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
On 05/10/2013 04:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Digimer lists@alteeve.ca wrote:
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.
If it is somebody else's money, and that somebody else wants support, why aren't you pointing them to RHEL in the first place?
Because CentOS works just fine for them. They've used it going back to CentOS 4 days without issue. Suggesting they rebuild long-in-production servers for the sake of a backup company is not going to fly.
That it is someone else's money doesn't change my responsibility to deliver the best bang for the buck.
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Les Mikesell