Stevie,
Also have a look at Bacula: http://www.bacula.org/en/
If your backup needs are simple (copying/mirroring files/directories on
a cron-job) then have a look at rdiff-backup. It's quite an amazing
piece of software that works exactly as advertised:
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/
If live replication of data and system availability is your core
concern, check out DRBD and HA clusters:
http://www.drbd.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-availability_cluster
http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.clusterlabs.org/
Regarding the VM's: I've not used VMware ESX, but you may need to
coordinate snapshot backups of your VM's in ESX with whichever back-end
backup process you end up going with. Alternatively, you could go the
extra mile and set up LVM partitions or use a file system like ZFS to do
snapshot backups that way:
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm_snapshots
http://zfs-fuse.net/
While you're at it, check out Proxmox :) We'd be more than happy to
help you convert!
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Kyle Spencer
On 9/16/2010 8:30 PM, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
Amanda
http://www.amanda.org/
Works on both Linux and the bill-gates one!
On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:46 PM, stevie kabs wrote:
Hi all,
I need advice on a software i can use for backup and replication of my
servers both virtualized and non virtualized .( virtualized with
VMware ESX 4.0 standard suite)
Thanks in advance
--
Stephen Kabali
Datacenter Administrator
Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
www.uiri.org
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