On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Chris Hoogendyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Does that mean that the planner understands this and will arrange for fulls > and incrementals in the same fashion as for ordinary partition backups with > ufsdump or gnutar?
Yep! > Now, what about MySQL? I know that starts to conflict with ZRM for MySQL, > but it's sort of different, in that it changes the management of the > database backups. ZRM can be managed by the DBA and then the sysadmin > handling network backups can capture that with Amanda and get it on tape. If > it were ammysql as a plug-in for the Application API, then it is totally > managed by the sysadmin handling backups, and the DBA has to go through the > sysadmin. So, in the corporate environment, ZRM would still be preferred. In > the Academic Department environment, an ammysql plug-in would be preferred. I don't expect that Zmanda will be working on such a thing, for exactly the reason you suggest. However, it would be a wonderful addition to Amanda, and probably a good-sized project for someone to take on, building on the model of ampgsql. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
