On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> >> 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the
> >> system level full backup.
> >>
> >
> > I believe he was suggesting that the Bacula catalog database might be stored
> > on the same file system that is being backed up. Since Bacula must write to
> > its catalog database frequently during a backup, that would cause disk
> > thrashing and greatly affect performance.
> >
> 
> Exactly.
>

so, would it be considered a 'best practice' to have the catalog database 
server that is on
a separate machine that the bacula server?

-- michael
 

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