On 05/10/2013 02:55 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > 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 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. -- 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?