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Open-Future

Open-Future is driven by a team of highly motivated Linux guru's.
 
Every team member has his or her expertise that is constantly updated by the eagerness to learn. Together we are the driving force behind the company Open-Future.
 
Supported by an extensive IT Platform and Labo, we are combining each person's strengths into the machine that is Open-Future. Thus, a team with a very broad range of competences is created. The expertise of each team member is passed on to the other team members by internal training.
 
And as we are an OPEN Source Company, our expertise is also passed on into the open world, or community with external trainings.
 
Open-Future is the Belgian competence center for everything covered by "Linux & Open Source".

  
  

Open-Future, making open source work for You

Care-free backup with Amanda

February 17, 2010 by ofadmin

We got a question from a customer for a good backup solution. The backup software we propose the most to our customers is Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver).
 
The feature that sold it to our customer was the setup and forget, which many of our customers love, after testing the restore of course.
 
We provided the right parameters after setting up the server, the dumpcycle (number of days), the tapecycle (number of tapes), the runspercycle (number of times the backup needs to run in the dumpcycle) and some other small modifications and you're done.
 
Schedule the backup and Amanda will decide when to do full, incremental or differential backups.
Based on the companies specific setup, we advised the client to use the virtual tape ability, something he liked a lot. It's easy to provide virtual tapes to amanda. Virtual tapes are tapes that reside on disk and not on physical tapes. Amanda mostly uses tar to create the backups.
 
Amanda provides the needed commands to manipulate the tapes and to do easy recovery.
 
You can find more information about Amanda on http://www.amanda.org.
 
Amanda also has commercial products (Zmanda cloud backup, Recovery Manager), which includes additional features.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation For Servers

February 5, 2010 by ofadmin

Because of the pending Premium Partnership between Open-Future and Red Hat,
we had the opportunity to install and test Red Hat's new Virtualisation technology for Linux:
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation(RHEV) for Servers.

Features included in this product are:

  • RHEV-M (The Red Hat Virtualisation Manager)
    A configuration management web interface and allround manager for your virtual datacenter.
  • Support for central storage (iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel)
  • Live Migration
  • High Availability
  • Templating
  • Load Balancing/Power Saving
  • ...

When playing with this product we were astonished by the performance and the quality of the product.
With this product you have all the tools and technology necessary for creating your own Cloud!

This was a sneak preview, read our newsletter, coming out early this week, for our full Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation For Servers experience.

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