@DustinB3403 said:

I added my CentOS NFS system to the backup.... lol 1TB of storage space attempting to backup to it's self might take a while....

Backup Inception? The Neverending Story?

@DustinB3403 said:

Did you not have somewhere to jump off of?

XS/XO/XOA is all great, but seriously the thread count is stupid. The knowledge is lost in all the noise.

Xen is purely LF, but also the toolstack which made XenServer what it is. Eg, XAPI is also a LF project 🙂

So +1 from the Scott's comment.

So I tested the backup functionality within XOS and the appliance backs it's self up without issue.

Wow!

No additional tools required. Great design @olivier !

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@anonymous said:

@DustinB3403 Thanks for your help! NFS is case sententive, it is mounted now! 😄

Everything outside of the Windows and DOS worlds is case sensitive. SMB, NFS, URLs, file names, passwords, usernames, everything.

Thats what bugs me about Linux ... I hate case sensitive things.

I'm the opposite, I can't stand that DOS can't tell two characters apart and has "close enough" syntax so that people become sloppy and begin to lose the concept of congruency. I remember dealing with a bunch of students and getting them to understand things like "This", "this" and "t h I s" were not congruent was a real problem. Windows teachers users that exact doesn't mean exact, not always.

I think that is why I like cisco's ios software... i don't have to type the full command... just enough to distinguish it from the other commands available.... I see the benefits of case sensitive, it just will take me a bit to get used to using it as I learn Linux.

@olivier said in Xen Orchestra Upgrading:

@DustinB3403 You need to think globally 😉 Only 1 Premium is enough to not have to convince 7x Starter. And costing 7 times less in support.

You should see Starter as "introductory offer". We'll add services step by step (like Cloud Backup).

Yeah, supporting the SMB's is the killer.

I think perhaps a better plan for SMBs would be, here's the product, some charge - say $500 (pulling a number out of my rear) and with that you get 4 hours of support. Then you can buy support in blocks after that.

The hard thing, you're going up against the likes of Veeam, and because of their size, they don't have to limit it like this.

@DustinB3403 said:

Damn you NFS-Common!!

That was it.

All working!

Good to hear!

@anonymous said:

@olivier can you please give us a quick guide on how to update to to the lastest version if your running from source?

http://mangolassi.it/topic/7584/xen-orchestra-upgrading/2

Happy to see it tested intensively 🙂

Exactly. Job manager is "generic": it allows you to build complex planned stuff (like shutdown those VM during the night, and create another job to start them in the morning).

It's very very generic.

Backup is a kind of specific planned job.

Yeah, searching for NFS, not a VM was the first thing that came to my mind.

LVM clearly dictates.....

Well... plug-in downloaded source, compiled, installed and activated.
In "Setting/Plugins" I can see now the "backup-reports" and "transport-email" plugins.
I made some simple test with "Backup Jobs" and all seems ok.

Thanks guys.

@johnhooks Yeah it's no longer an issue.

I recompiled from scratch on a new VM and have the whole process documented in the link just there.

Seems to work.

So upon further investigation I've realized I'm a complete moron. So I created the local storage through the web interface. I thought that meant it was local to XenServer, but it was local to XO. So the backups are being saved to the container and not on XenServer. Disregard everything above, I'm just stupid.

Yes, RDS is built from XenApp. They are one and the same, XenApp just has more features.

@coliver We can implement a "remote" of Amazon type, that shouldn't be a problem!