Hello all
We are having a lengthy discussion in my company about backups of vPostgres.
We are currently on vSphere 5.5 ion Windows with SQl backend and plan to move to vSphere 6.5 appliance (vCHA) 6.5U1c. We currently rely on SQL to perform our backups which also has transaction logs so vCenter DB is backed up regularly every 15 minutes.
I'd like to have something similar in place for when we move across to vPostgres but my colleague feels a once a day backup of the VM is sufficient and I realise it all boils down to how risk savy you are and also how you see things. I personally feel taking a backup of your database for vCenter (as well as SRM and vROPS when we move to vPostgres for that) is not enough. After all, we can potentially lose a great deal of information in a day including perf stats, permissions changes, VM changes etc. and we would not be in a position to even work out what change took place because I work in a very large organisation with 10 vCenter servers, 3,500 virtual machines, more than 190 hosts and more than 7,000 staff.
I would like to know the opinion out there so I can accept defeat and agree or put a strong argument for more regular backups. One of my remaining tasks is to also ensure Commvault can actually provide what we need as we are currently on v10 with the plan to upgrade to v11 soon. For starters, CommVault v10 is not particularly good at restoring files for system state although I realise this is another topic altogether.
Also, what systems are people actually to back things up? There is a KB that VMWare provides but having spoken to them they told me sysAdmin is the way to go. A general level ticket was logged but the support was not too good.
Also, what about scheduled backups for the external PSCs? We will have two at each site and I realize this is can also be backed up manually but scheduling backups is not so easy if you were previously on Windows and not familiar with Cron etc.I realize we have resiliency and with a load balancer this can be be automated but backups are still important.
Any feedback appreciated.