Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it a good idea to use bacula if Irarely havenetwork connection?

2009-05-24 17:52:15
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Is it a good idea to use bacula if Irarely havenetwork connection?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan AT gmail DOT com>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:48:40 -0400
>> So, if you run backups locally to an external disk, you could back up the
>> catalog by taking an ascii dump of the database, and copying the dump file
>> to the same disk used for actual backup data.
>
> So Can I just back the directory where the database is?
>
That is not a good way to backup a database. You need to run mysqldupm
instead and backup the text file it generates.

John

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