There are two major events that haunt every Webhost. One is the ghastly image of the word “HacKeD” popping up on all of the sites on their server, usually accompanied by a skull. Neon green always being the color of choice. The second is usually in the form of a mail or phone call informing you that the hard drive on your server just went bust. As far as problems for Webhosts go, these rank right up there with “Houston…we have a problem.”

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Imagine a scenario where a data center runs out of space. What does the business need to do? It needs to find more space, build the infrastructure, racks, cooling, power and everything that needs to be done to make it a real brick and mortar data-center. Anything from a year plus to build something like that. Wait and spend a lot of money, before any real results come out of it.

Well, those are all scenarios from the past, if vendors like HP are to be believed. They’ve built an entire data center in a 8 ft by 40 ft container, complete with racks, cooling, power and everything it takes to run a data center.

With support for up to 3500 servers in that small space, they promise 50% power savings compared to a traditional data center. What does it mean for data centers?

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There are many ways to backup Servers. One of the better ways to accomplish this is using rsnapshot. Rsnapshot is nothing but a filesystem snapshot utility for backing up local and remote systems.

Rsnapshot is written in Perl, and depends on rsync. With ssh access, it is possible to backup remote servers.

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Information is an asset that, just like other important business assets, should be adequately safeguarded, in order to maintain competitive advantage. Information is not only the software files, like spreadsheets and reports. Its also the knowledge that we carry in our heads. Its the Intellectual property of an organization.

Imagine, losing your data, during a system upgrade, or due to hardware problems. Unlike your hardware, information not insurable. Loss of information or its compromise can be devastating to a company, and an unimaginable gain for its competitors.An important aspect of Information security is Information Backup. Information Backup, unlike data backup, is not limited to technical backing up of a few computers. It is an organizational strategy of maintaining the integrity and availability of information and the Information processing facility. It includes well-oiled and rehearsed strategies on recovering data.

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