On 13 Sep 2007 at 19:23, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Hi all, > > We (a little webhosting company) are planning to use Bacula in > production as a backup solution. But, first of all we need to resolve > one important and essencial question: > > ¿Is Bacula a reliable method to backup an _active_ databases (normally > it will be a MySQL servers)? > > For example, if I have a box with a MySQL server _active_ just in the > moment that Bacula does their backup job... ¿the resultant copy will be > consistent as a copy you can get with the using of specialized tools as > mysqldump?
Recommended solution: always use mysqldump. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
