The email sent will contain a link to this article, the article title, and an article excerpt (if available). For security reasons, your IP address will also be included in the sent email.
This is a guest post by Jeff Behl, VP Ops @ LogicMonitor. Jeff has been a bit herder for the last 20 years, architecting and overseeing the infrastructure for a number of SaaS based companies.
Data Replication for Disaster Recovery
An inevitable part of disaster recovery planning is making sure customer data exists in multiple locations. In the case of LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based monitoring solution for physical, virtual, and cloud environments, we wanted copies of customer data files both within a data center and outside of it. The former was to protect against the loss of individual servers within a facility, and the latter for recovery in the event of the complete loss of a data center.
Where we were: Rsync