Motives and the Features
For the servers running in our new network, I was in need for a
highly configurable, but easy-to-use backup solution that can
take online backups of VMs and MySQL databases running multiple
storage engines.
Since my colleagues are all researchers or programmers but there
are no dedicated engineers for managing our system, I decided to
write a set of command line scripts to accomplish the task
instead of using an existing, highly-configurable but
time-taking-to-learn backup solutions, like Amanda.
And what I have come up with now is a backup solution with
following characteristics, let me introduce them.
- a central backup server able to take backup of other servers
over SSH using public-key authentication
- no need to install backup agents into each server
- LVM snapshot-based online, …
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