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Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:
> Ryan Novosielski escreveu:
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>>> Ryan Novosielski escreveu:
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>>>>>> Not that I am complaing about that (I've already complained to the right
>>>>>> person, but he didn't hire anyone else yet). Actually, I like learning
>>>>>> new things, but the problem is that I'm not that good to reach the
>>>>>> expectations about what I am supposed to do in the desired deadlines.
>>>>>>
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>>>> Not to make light of your plight (as it is lousy), but that is most of
>>>> us. The nice thing about backups, though, is that if you spend some time
>>>> thinking things through, you can set it up, implement it, and write down
>>>> what you did and that's essentially it. If you take a few days to get
>>>> things going properly, you will have nothing much to do relating to
>>>> backups. If you can pass the tape change off to someone else that is
>>>> good with following directions like this, you may need no input
>>>> whatsoever (other than an occasional restore test to make sure what
>>>> you're doing actually is working).
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>>> Well, I already tried to ask a colleague to do a simple task once a
>>> week: move some files to a new folder and delete the older one. I do it
>>> in 10 seconds every Friday. It is so simple that I'm lazy to write a
>>> ".bat" for doing that. But guess what. In the 3 times I needed him to
>>> this simple task due to vacation or business traveling, even remembering
>>> him in the prior day, he couldn't remember. There is no other colleague
>>> to ask such thing. I learned that if someone is to change the tape, that
>>> has to be me, at least until someone new is hired...
>>>
>>> But, even if I have someone to rely on, I would still have another
>>> problem: if I need to separate a tape for e-mail and other for normal
>>> data and want both backups to be made at night, no one could wait at
>>> night to change the tapes...
>>>
>>> Rodrigo.
>>>
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>> I understand. I'm lucky enough to have someone whose job it is and who
>> is very meticulous and cares when he makes a mistake. He has made maybe
>> one mistake since I started him 6 months ago, and sometimes forgets to
>> tell other staff he'll be away, but for the most part, he's dead on. It
>> depends on how much trouble the person is in if they forget, I guess. :)
>>
>>
> :) I can do nothing in my case. I'm not his boss :) Lucky you!
I'm not his either, but he has one, and she wants him to do this. ;)
>> You might want to look into job migration. You can back up to disk and
>> move those jobs to tape at a later time (jobs run at night possibly and
>> you can migrate to tape whenever you want). It is complicated somewhat
>> and I haven't done it, but it might fit the bill.
>>
> Yes I was wondering exactly this... Maybe I move the e-mail backups in
> disk to a tape once a week, manually...
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
Hope it works out. I think this is a good solution for something like
this, though it will not solve your retention problem. You will still
need more than one tape in any case, but not in the drive at one time.
> One more doubt. I'm curious why "status job" gives me old cached results
> after "drop_mysql_tables" and "create_mysql_tables". Where are these
> results located?
These are kept elsewhere. I believe they can be flushed with a console
command. I believe the physical files are .state files somewhere on the
client end or on the -dir end, depending on what is in them.
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