> One question, how to backup the catalog. > > We are using MySQL for the bacula catalog. This database is approximately 46 > Gb in size. > > When we use the backup script make_catalog_backup (supplied with bacula) to > dump the database, bacula is not usable during the mysqldump process due to > locked tables. > > In this case its not possible to make a backup of the catalog every day. We > don’t like a not responding bacula system ;) > > My question is how do you make a good backup of the catalog without > interrupting the bacula functionality? >
Can't you backup the database after all of your backups are finished? My database is around 30GB and it takes less than 20 minutes to backup on a 5 year old Opteron 246 server. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
