Preferred Backup technique for NagiosXI Server

[Satyam]

Dear Support Team,

Please suggest a preferred backup technique for my production NagiosXI server which can help me to restore the monitoring service as fast as possible in case of server crash or similar situations.

Currently all the backup scripts are executing on the local NagiosXI server only and backups are placed locally on the server, so if server crashes data will be lost and we cannot restore the application with the recent application backup and DB backup.

[scottwilkerson]

This would be correct.

It would be a good idea to script the copying of the latest backup to another server using rsync or something similar

[Satyam]

Dear Scott,

We have already modified the supplied backup scripts with NagiosXI to move the daily backup files to a another remote server using rsync. If someone requires am ready to share

But what we require is system level backup with the entire OS & Application data, so that we don't need to install the OS & build the application from scratch and restore the data in case of crash like situations.

Do you suggest or recommend any online or offline backup methods for the same to have the required backup on some media.

[mguthrie]

You can also look into full drive replication like VMotion (if you're using Vmware) or something like DRBD, but the initial learning curve with DRBD is a little bit steep.

Most people will use the documented method we have for backing up and restore XI onto a freshly installed XI system (requires the same architecture).
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ing_XI.pdf

[Satyam]

Dear mguthrie,

Sorry for the question as I am not a VM person, Is that full drive replication with VMotion of Vmware will give the entire environment back i.e the OS & NagiosXI application with the all application data. I believe in this case I may not need to install the OS & NagiosXI freshly. Is it the same case with DRBD also.

[scottwilkerson]

These would be block for block replication so you wouldn't need to install the OS or XI on the restored server.