[Discuss] July meeting?

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

So here is a little primer about burp in preparation for the meeting on the
23rd.

Burp <http://burp.grke.org/> is a network enabled backup solution. The
project began as a master's thesis project, it set out to solve all the
headaches that backups can cause especially in an enterprise type
environment. It draws some inspiration from the Bacula project. Burp has
two parts a server and clients. You can have one or more servers that your
burp clients talk to. Client configuration can be done on both the client
and server. So for example you can have a set of defaults that are used
server side that then can be overridden on the client side to customize the
backup options. Burp supports client side encryption so that if you can't
trust the burp server you are able to backup encrypted copies of your data.
It also does deduplication, assuming that you do not have encryption turned
on. Another neat feature is burp provides "hooks" so that when a backup
completes or begins a script (or scripts) of your choosing can be run. I
use this to run mysqldump's before the backup to ensure database
consistency. Another really useful thing is once all backups are complete
I'm able to ship our data off to "the cloud" to provide off site backup.
The encryption comes in very handy for this use case. I'll run through what
our disaster recovery plan looks like at the meeting and give a brief
overview of our infrastructure, especially as it pertains to Burp. If you
have any specific questions/issues that you would like talked about at the
meeting shoot me an email.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the 23rd.

Thanks,
 _
/-\ ndrew

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Okay, let's do the 23rd. I'll get the time off of work today.
>
> Great.  I created a meeting event on the website:
> http://www.montanalinux.org/bozemanlug-meeting-announcement-july2015.html
>
> Andrew - I put you down for BURP and DIY VDI... although I can certainly
> change/update that as needed.  Although the meeting time is listed from
> 7-9PM... we often run over... and very rarely end at 9... so you have as
> little or as much time as you want.  If you could cover both topics that
> would be awesome... but if you only want to do one, that's fine too.  If
> you want to give me more complete descriptions I'll post them.  Let me know.
>
> So, the meeting will be Thursday, July 23rd at the usual time and place.
>
> TYL,
> --
> Scott Dowdle
> 704 Church Street
> Belgrade, MT 59714
> (406)388-0827 [home]
> (406)994-3931 [work]
>
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