Hi, I was wondering if anyone had solutions for backing up live databases.
I've some (smallish) databases - around 2GB maybe, that I'd like to backup. I was wondering how amanda could be configured to do this. Is it possible to do something like getting the amanda user to run a script shutting down the database, while it runs tar/dump on the database filesystems ? (or, as in the case of informix, the raw partitions) ? Or, am I better off having a huge disk on the database boxes, and doing a dump of the databases as SQL to disk every night, before the backup is run ? john
