On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Nils Blanck-Wehde wrote:

> Yesterday I added a new backup job with a run-before-client script. The
> job was scheduled for 22:00. Unfortunately I made a mistake in the
> script, causing it to hang. When it finally crashed, it was 09:00 in the
> morning. Bacula immediately started the next scheduled job which is the
> backup of our production database. The database was correctly shut down
> during the backup and restarted afterwards. Of course my telephone rang
> like a hundred times because applications all over the company crashed.

If the Database is mysql, why not mysqlhotcopy it and then dump that copy
and back that up?

Your downtime will be considerably shorter and it will only hang, not shut
down.

AB


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