Once upon a time, Phil Stracchino said:
> You also mentioned "SQL/mail". You should not be backing up SQL DBs at
> the file level. Doing so does not guarantee a consistent backup of the
> DB because there is time skew between the beginning and end of the DB
> backup (and can be time skew even wi
Phil,
I am planning on mounting a snapshot on the SAN as Chris has indicated
he is currently doing.
David
On 11/14/2012 10:48 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Sorry, I missed the "SAN" in the subject line. You may or may not be
> able to perform backups directly from the SAN. If you can, it is l
Sorry, I missed the "SAN" in the subject line. You may or may not be
able to perform backups directly from the SAN. If you can, it is likely
to be a much faster way.
If you're planning to mount the same SAN volume on multiple servers,
keep in mind that most filesystems are designed assuming they
On 11/14/12 09:36, David Palmer wrote:
> I am looking at ways to speed up our backups as our data continues to
> grow. We currently have an equallogic group that stores much of our
> information. One idea that we had for speeding up backups is to have a
> file server that is separate from our pr
I have never looked into fsfreeze thanks for that little nugget.
Two of the main file servers are windows based so I think that I will
use the bacula client vss support to freeze the data for those two severs.
David
On 11/14/2012 10:11 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, David Palmer s
Once upon a time, David Palmer said:
> I am looking at ways to speed up our backups as our data continues to
> grow. We currently have an equallogic group that stores much of our
> information. One idea that we had for speeding up backups is to have a
> file server that is separate from our pro
I am looking at ways to speed up our backups as our data continues to
grow. We currently have an equallogic group that stores much of our
information. One idea that we had for speeding up backups is to have a
file server that is separate from our production file servers and
mounting the data vo
