Zabbix Full Backup

[sk3pp3r]

Hey,

my zabbix server is zabbix appliance 2.4.6 (under VMWare)

I need to make recovery plan.

what is the right way to backup ?

how you backup your server ?

make snapshot? dump? clone? other ?

[coreychristian]

We use a pretty extensive proxy setup. For our server we are doing a master/slave setup with the slave being in another DC, if we need to fail over we just point the proxies to the new Zabbix Server and spin up off the slave DB.

Really though the options are pretty limitless, just depends on your requirements and what your company has available. Just using the appliance though I would think snapshot should be more then enough.

[LenR]

I want to get to a point where I have at least 2 weekly full DB backups and a week of incremental backups.

I'm using Percona's xtrabackup to take a weekly hot backup (Saturday) and daily incremental (Just M-F), all written to a NFS deduplicated storage appliance. My 5000 nvps database is a 2.1T and takes about 8 hours for a full backup and 3 for an incremental. I just started this, so I've not yet timed a full restore.

If I had planned better, I would have made my LVM configuration suitable for MySQL LVM snapshot backups.

At this point, I'm not tasked with data replication or HA, but recovery from someone's misguided API breaking everything, which replication would dutifully replicate anyway.

[sk3pp3r]

Thanks,

so is no "In-House" solution for backup DB and server configuration ?

[Stefan_D]

Thanks,

so is no "In-House" solution for backup DB and server configuration ?

I don't think so.

You'll have to create a backup strategy four your setup by yourself.
I think it depends much on your Setup but basically it's
- Backup your database
- Backup your webserver
- Backup all important configuration files
- Backup the OS (if you need to)

In your case, what about using vmware ESX server's mechanisms to do backups?
I think it can create snapshots & stuff out of the box.

SD