The enterprise version may have a pause feature, but the open-source one 
does not.

We run a slave database server and make a daily dump from that, knowing 
that it will not preserve the records being made for running jobs, but 
since the running jobs aren't complete when the dump begins, they 
wouldn't be useful records to have anyway (and we're willing to be 
behind by a day on our backups if a disaster were to occur).

It's also possible to run a transactional engine on your master db and 
do a dump while jobs are running, but we found the dump times to be 
ridiculously high (like 12+ hours).  Our Catalog is something like 300Gb.

There are other options out there as well, like using a snapshot of your 
underlying filesystem, but, yeah, a pause feature sure would be nice for 
many many reasons.

Stephen




On 8/2/12 6:36 AM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote:
> Because I have quite a few long running jobs, my BackupCatalog job is not 
> getting run more than once or twice per week.  I understand the potential 
> instability of backing up the catalog while there are running jobs.  Is there 
> anything in the bacula pipeline that would pause running jobs so that the 
> catalog could be backed up?  Say a snapshot capability?
>
> Patti Clark
> Information International Associates, Inc.
> Linux Administrator and subcontractor to:
> Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>
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