UC San Diego Interview Question

You have a caching name server, a database server, two web application servers. The first two are physical and the last two are virtual. All three are critical and can have minimal downtime. What is your strategy to configure, backup, and monitor them.

Interview Answer

Anonymous

Apr 25, 2012

cfengine for configuration management, replication + database backup agent for the db servers, VM snapshots for the web servers + FS dumps