On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:10:25PM +0000, DLASALLE@barreau.qc.ca wrote: > Envoyé depuis un mobile Samsung. That explains it :) thanks, Herbert > -------- Message d'origine -------- > De : Herbert Poetzl > Date :04/16/2014 19:00 (GMT-05:00) > À : Lasalle Daniel > Cc : vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > Objet : Re: [vserver] VPS Restoration using Symantec BackupExec > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:18:31PM +0000, DLASALLE@barreau.qc.ca wrote: >> Hello, >> My organisation has been using Symantec Backup Exec for doing >> the backups of our VPSes. Now our server died and we are having >> troubles restoring the backup from the tape. Would anybody have >> any experience with such setup? > Maybe you could elaborate what the problems are? >> If not, would you happen to have the best practices for >> backing up Vserver VPSes on tape (which is hosted on a Windows >> machine)? > I wouldn't think of putting the tape drive on a windows > machine, but to make that work you probably want to have > an archive file per guest, like a .tar so that the windows > platform only has to backup this single file (similar for > incremental backups). >> All that I am able to find are rsync and scp/nfs solutions. > Any archive format should be fine, as long as it handles > attributes and ownerships properly. > For tape (on Unix/Linux) besides the obvious tar, there > is also cpio and for ext2/3 dump/restore, which all can > handle tape drives properly. > HTH, > Herbert >> Lastly, yes, I am fully aware of all of the technical constraints. >> Thanks, >> [cid:image001.gif@01CE6688.98AF8C30] >> Daniel LaSalle | Administrateur de systèmes et support aux usager(e)s >> T : 514 954-3400, poste 3674 | Sans frais : 1 800 361-8495 >> Maison du Barreau | 445, boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal QC H2Y 3T8 >> dlasalle@barreau.qc.ca<mailto:dlasalle@barreau.qc.ca> | http://www.barreau.qc.ca<http://www.barreau.qc.ca/> >> P Avant l'impression, pensez-y... Est-ce vraiment nécessaire?