On 08/22/10 12:02, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Sunday 22 August 2010 08:36:46 Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Speaking of plugins ... is there any way to suppress the Director's
>> message every time it starts up that no plugins were found in
>> /opt/bacula/lib?  It's a bit like getting a phone call every morning to
>> say "Nothing happened last night."  Why does the Director do this?
>>
>> NOT finding any plugins is a null event that shouldn't need to be
>> reported.  Since the vast majority of Bacula users do not use plugins,
>> it would be more useful if, in the case that it DID find plugins, it
>> reported which plugins it had found and loaded, but otherwise said
>> nothing when nothing happened.
> 
> If you do not use plugins, do not define the plugin directory (as is the 
> default), and you should not get any messages.  
> 
> If you "explicitly" define a plugin directory, and there are no plugins, that 
> deserves at least an "explicit" warning.   :-)

OK, I can see the login of that I suppose  :)  (though I think I defined
the plugin directory because it was warning me that no plugin directory
was defined...)

I'd actually planned at one point to use the bpipe-fd plugin for my
Catalog backup, but I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet because
I made a discovery of something called mysql-snapback.  It's a Python
tool that knows how to create snapshots on a couple of different
filesystems, including ZFS, and understands how to FULLY quiesce InnoDB
tables.  So instead of having to lock the tables and dump the databases,
which may take quite a while on large databases or even just on a large
catalog, it can quiesce the databases, take a fast snapshot, and release
the DB within a few seconds, then you just back up the snapshot and free it.

In short, it looks pretty interesting.


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