A new backup system is coming. It will be available first to KVM (openvz later), and I am looking for suggestions clients may have on the backup system.
The basic requirements I had in designing this backup system, was that it is done on the fly with out downtime to the VM.
The backup system will operate as follows:
1) on demand backup (create an image of your VPS). The backup is done using LVM snapshots with out downtime . You will have a url the image can be downloaded. The backup will be a tar / gzip of all files, so the size depends on the amount of files you have not the space usage you have purchased.
2) Scheduled backup - similar to above, but daily / weekly / monthly is kept
I plan in the future to have these images be re-deployable on another VPS as a new install or the same VPS as a reinstall.
OpenVZ is a work in progress because it does not use LVM, another method will be used to ensure it can be down with out time down.
The basic requirements I had in designing this backup system, was that it is done on the fly with out downtime to the VM.
The backup system will operate as follows:
1) on demand backup (create an image of your VPS). The backup is done using LVM snapshots with out downtime . You will have a url the image can be downloaded. The backup will be a tar / gzip of all files, so the size depends on the amount of files you have not the space usage you have purchased.
2) Scheduled backup - similar to above, but daily / weekly / monthly is kept
I plan in the future to have these images be re-deployable on another VPS as a new install or the same VPS as a reinstall.
OpenVZ is a work in progress because it does not use LVM, another method will be used to ensure it can be down with out time down.