I started a new thread, because we've gone onto a new topic. Catalog backup, not just catalogs.
On 24 Jan 2006 at 20:11, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > > > Is there a possibililty that it will hold 5 years worth of data? > > > > It is. Note that 5 years of data for backing up one computer is > > quite different from that used to backup 1000 computers. Indeed, it > > depends greatly upon how many *files* you are backing up, and not > > such much on the size of the data. > > > If the system to be backed up is relatively stable (only a few files change > between incremental bacups) and the catalog is included in the backup, the > catalog itself may be a significant amount of data that will be put into > every (even incremental) backup. This is one thing to consider, if catalog > size gets big. This may put a practical limit to the timeframe that is kept > in the catalog in full. The catalog, when backed up, is just one file. At least it should be. If you're using mysqldump or pg_dump, you'll have just one ASCII file. For SQLite, I don't know. I do not recommend backing up the raw database files as a backup method. The ASCII file is always The Right Thing To Do. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
