Hello, everyone, I would like to revise my previous backup concept. First of all a description of the environment and the previous concept:
As virtualization host I use Proxmox VE. Various virtual machines run on it: - PFSense - Linux server (Samba-ADS, LDAP, file server, CUPS, DHPC ..) - Linux server (groupware in MariaDB) - Windows VM for specialist applications (MSSQL Express) The PFSense can be neglected because I create an image after the setup and nothing changes after that. And when I make an adjustment I manually create an image again. Besides that there is a second physical backup server (Linux) on which I have Bareos-Backup running. On all the above VM's I have set up the Bareos client accordingly. So I backup according to the generation principle (Pools: Daily, Weekly, Monthly). This allows me to access various versions of a file if it was accidentally deleted and it is not immediately noticed. It becomes problematic when a VM - for whatever reason - suddenly refuses to boot. Or there is an error in the groupware (database). As far as I know the backup with Bareos is not consistent with databases (MSSQL, MariaDB, LDAP ...) ... correct me if this is wrong. Now I think about how I can do this better. Especially since fast restore of a whole VM. In Proxmox there is the possibility to create backups of the whole VM. This also works automatically and on a separate storage. Because there is always a dump of the VM (even with a short stop) I have a consistent system afterwards. But also each time completely. I could e.g. provide an additional 8TB-storage on the backup-server and backup a dump of each VM from Mon-Fri which will be overwritten after one week. But this is completely isolated from my Bareos backup and with the dumps I don't have the possibility to restore an accidental deletion of a mail from the groupware system (which is located in the MariaDB). How do I design my backup in the most sensible way? Is my concept possibly completely crap? Are there any good documentation on how I can best set it up? It would be nice if you could give me some tips. with best sven -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/d96765ed-a924-40a3-8dc0-d918456e9fe7%40googlegroups.com.
