Hi all.
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.
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ support CentOS (and Windows)?
Any pointers will be much appreciated!
digimer
Digimer wrote:
Hi all.
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.
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ support CentOS (and Windows)?
Don't know of any... but ask to talk to an SE (sales engineer), rather than just sales. I'd assume they know *nothing* of distros.
<shakes head> I once started a support call with Sun/Oracle *shudder*, and the engineer got all huffy, they didn't support CentOS (it was a hardware problem), and he obviously didn't know anything about it. I escalated, and got another engineer (and the story goes downhill from there).
mark
On 05/10/2013 02:55 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Digimer wrote:
Hi all.
We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We'vebeen 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.
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ supportCentOS (and Windows)?
Don't know of any... but ask to talk to an SE (sales engineer), rather than just sales. I'd assume they know *nothing* of distros.
<shakes head> I once started a support call with Sun/Oracle *shudder*, and the engineer got all huffy, they didn't support CentOS (it was a hardware problem), and he obviously didn't know anything about it. I escalated, and got another engineer (and the story goes downhill from there).
mark
I talked to a couple companies that support RHEL, explained that CentOS was binary compatible and they were not interested in helping us. As I mentioned to Reindl, this is a political question more than a technical one.
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
<shakes head> I once started a support call with Sun/Oracle *shudder*, and the engineer got all huffy, they didn't support CentOS (it was a hardware problem), and he obviously didn't know anything about it. I escalated, and got another engineer (and the story goes downhill from there).
It is a similar experience with Intel, Dell, ... The OS is not on their compatible list? Sorry can't help you, never mind it is a hardware problem.
Whenever there is hardware problem, I play dumb and 'do' whatever they ask me to do and report failure for each operation. Eventually I get a RMA number.
<anecdote> I run a small time consulting operation and this is the kind of flack I get. It is just not Linux. On an Intel S3000AH board, certified for Windows 2003 server, I was told that Windows 2008 server was not supported. </anecdote>
Rsync.net ? 10.5.2013 21.47 "Digimer" lists@alteeve.ca kirjoitti:
Hi all.
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.
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ support CentOS (and Windows)?
Any pointers will be much appreciated!
digimer
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Oh, these guys look exactly like what I need. I've put a call into them and am waiting for a call back.
Thank you!
On 05/10/2013 03:02 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
Rsync.net ? 10.5.2013 21.47 "Digimer" lists@alteeve.ca kirjoitti:
Hi all.
We've got a lot of customers running CentOS 5 and 6 servers. We'vebeen 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.
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ supportCentOS (and Windows)?
Any pointers will be much appreciated!digimer
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Am Fri, 10 May 2013 14:46:23 -0400 schrieb Digimer lists@alteeve.ca:
Hi all.
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.
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ support CentOS (and Windows)?
Any pointers will be much appreciated!
Have you looked at crashplan?
I haven't really tried it, but it would be something I'd look at.
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Digimer lists@alteeve.ca wrote:
So does anyone know of an online backup company that _will_ support CentOS (and Windows)?
Any pointers will be much appreciated!
Not an online but an in-house solution. Symantec Netbackup (or whatever it is called) apparently supports a whole bunch of Linux distros (as client). Recently, I deployed a CentOS LAMP server (guest in Windows Hyper-V) and the data center guys installed the CentOS client in it for daily backups.
Perhaps some online vendor who is using the same in their infra can support CentOS.
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