Thank you, that was extremely helpful. I just did some poking around, and based on the .ServerBackups folder in my TM drive, ServerBackup seems to be running as would be expected on my SL servers. I feel much better.
Greg On Mar 20, 2013, at 14:56 , Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 20/03/2013, at 10:07 AM, Gregory Shenaut wrote: > >> On Mar 19, 2013, at 15:48 , Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote: >>> For an active database, that might be *all* the files in their entirety. I >>> think most >>> database systems have inbuilt backup options, such as whole database >>> (infrequently), >>> transaction log (more frequently) or actual files (which might be in an >>> inconsistent >>> state at the moment a Time Machine type of backup finishes). >> >> I would appreciate some kind of definitive reference to explain whether TM >> automatically flushes “standard” system databases or not as part of the its >> procedure when running on Server, and the extent to which the inconsistency >> problem could impact recovering from a disk failure, again, only for the >> standardly included server functions. >> >> I have had only one instance so far in which I recovered from a failed drive >> using a TM backup, and it worked flawlessly, but that server (still running >> 10.6) is way underused, pretty much as a file server and DNS secondary, so >> there probably wasn't any database activity to speak of. >> >> By the way, it's a Mac Mini, and I use the first drive for the system and >> the second one for the TM backups. I also connect a FW drive from time to >> time and use CCC to make a snapshot of the system. >> >> I have from time to time written scripts that flush databases periodically >> to a backup location, but in truth, have never needed to use those backups. > > I came across this - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5139 - esp. the last para, > but it's for Lion … > > Cheers, Ian W. > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
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