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Orallo Orallo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am fairly new to Bacula and I am extremely pleased with the results we
> are getting, I backup about 9GB of data over the LAN in about 25 minutes
> which is extremely close in performace to the previous system we used
>
> (ntbackup) using local drives, but oh so much more reliable, stable, and
> all the other good-ables. ;-)
>
> Here are my only 2 issues:
>
> 1st. I'm backing up data files stored on our main server, which are used
>
> by multiple users most of the time, there really isnt a time when NO files
> are in use. I know that with NTBackup if a file was in use, it didn't get
> backed up, And the log would show which files weren't backed up. With
>
> bacula I really don't know what happens when a file is in use, does bacula
> back it up anyway? and if not, how do I know which files were not backed
> up???
Bacula tries to back up open files. If you've enabled VSS it will
attempt to get a snapshot before starting the backup, without it it will
just try to read the file as is and if it's allowed to do so, back it
up. Of course in both cases, the file could not be consistent (in the
first one, you depend on VSS alerting all relative programs and waiting
for all files to be consistent before snapshotting, in the second case
you just hope you're lucky).
As far as I know, Bacula complains in the backup report when it doesn't
manage to get a lock on a file / read it. (at least it did complain when
it couldn't read my users' Outlook Express mailboxes, but I've not seen
that in a while since the client got VSS support and I've switched
everybody to Mozilla Thunderbird since then.)
Greetings,
Michel
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