On Friday 02 September 2005 06:36 am, Dan Langille wrote: > On 2 Sep 2005 at 15:22, Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - e wrote: > > > >How much time? I ask because it sounds like you are assuming and > > > >have not actually tried it. > > > > [ I think in general it's not bad to think about things impact before > > trying :) ] > > Worthwhile. But one must also act with facts. Try it. One might be > surprised. I regularly backup large online databases by dumping the > file to text. > > If someone says: it takes 72 hours to dump my database to disk, and > that's too long, THEN we have something tangible to work with.
I also backup our large DB2 DB with text dumps (and them gzip them). Quicker than I thought it would be. Used to be the only way to backup an Oracle DB. In fact, its the only way to do a table backup in DB2 Ver7. ted ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
