A month or two ago I finally went through all the old hard drives I’ve accumulated over the past decade. I mounted each of the disks and moved a bunch of files onto my desktop’s drive. There were lots of photos from the drives that I don’t want to lose so I decided to get a little more serious about backups. I decided to give Duply a go. Duply is a wrapper for duplicity, which underneath it all uses the tried and trusted rsync....
My post on VMware Consolidated Backup has gotten a decent amount of traffic. If you’re using ESX and not considering VMware Consolidated Backup, this video explains it all.
This has been a pretty fun project at work and I think it could benefit a lot of people, so I’ve decided to post a modified version of my documentation. It’s a DRAFT and not quite yet in production. I’m still working through a lot of the process. Here’s what I’ve learned… There’s an awful lot of noise (and even worse, quite a bit of actual material) to wrap your mind around when doing a Disaster Recovery plan for virtual machines....