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. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?