Offsite backup and CentOS Upstream - looking for suggestions.
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Hi there,
I have couple things to ask:
Offsite backup: Whether onsite backup and replication to DR site together is covering the Offsite backup purpose?
Scenario is, solid backups and replication to DR site is in place with enough retention by considering RPO and RTO, but there is no Offsite Backup Plan in place.
I believe any of items like Backup and Replication to DR site is not replacing Offsite Backup, especially with rise of Ransomware these days.
For example, if ransomware infection happens on production server and on backups, and the replication of infected data goes to DR Site, hence, all data is gone.
Please clarify how necessary offsite backup is and provide some scenarios, in which offsite backup (tape to site or cloud) is the only solution or last resort.
CentOS Upstream: Isn't okay for Production Servers anymore?
I'm not very clear with what's going on with CentOS after it is announced as Upstream.
I came across the situation, in one big environment CentOS is in use, setup is in process, so I wanted to put some light on it and let our team think for long run, with regards to use or not to use CentOS?
Is it not good for Production Servers anymore like before? Can someone explain me in layman terms please?
Thank you!
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@openit said in Offsite backup and CentOS Upstream - looking for suggestions.:
Hi there,
I have couple things to ask:
Offsite backup: Whether onsite backup and replication to DR site together is covering the Offsite backup purpose?
Scenario is, solid backups and replication to DR site is in place with enough retention by considering RPO and RTO, but there is no Offsite Backup Plan in place.
I believe any of items like Backup and Replication to DR site is not replacing Offsite Backup, especially with rise of Ransomware these days.
For example, if ransomware infection happens on production server and on backups, and the replication of infected data goes to DR Site, hence, all data is gone.
Replication is not backup. You are mixing the terms here in too many places for anyone to know what you are actually describing.
Please try again.
The protection of your backups, means that the backup meda is not accessible from anything except the backup device, and with credentials that are not shared with anything else.
Thus, there is no way for any local event to affect your backups.
Your offsite backup should be written to a device or service that makes them immutable. This means even if you somehow do screw up locally, and not set permissions and such correctly, your offsite backups are unable to ever be changed.
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@openit said in Offsite backup and CentOS Upstream - looking for suggestions.:
CentOS Upstream: Isn't okay for Production Servers anymore?
I assume you mean CentOS Stream?
Honestly it is a more viable solution for a Linux server than CentOS ever was as it is no longer so out dated.
But, I would give the entire RHEL ecosystem a wide berth at this point.
