Disaster Recovery & Open Source Ryan Fuerst
Disaster Recovery Why plan for a disaster? Users, Laws, Management, the Unknown.
Disaster Planning, what to plan for. Natural Disaster (Blizzard, Fire, Flood...) Environmental (Power, Cooling...) Hardware (Servers, Switches...) Software (Databases, WebServer, EMail...) People (Sysadmin, Developers, Other...)
Risk Management What is your acceptable risk. Minimum Requirements What would you like to do? Limitations Money, Hardware, People Plan around these Limitations
Open Source Solutions Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/) Mondo Rescue (http://www.mondorescue.org/) Dirvish (http://www.dirvish.org/) Backupninja (http://dev.riseup.net/backupninja/) Rsync, Tar, cpio, etc...
Why go with Open Source? Lower Cost Proven reliability Lots of support It works
Recovery Single File Complete File System Database Server Data Center
Questions?