On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:55 AM, James Cort <james.cort AT u4eatech DOT com> 
wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>>> Hi every:
>>> I've been using Bacula for a while and now I have a big question: it's 
>>> possible to save the database data? I mean like an SQL query or a dump? Any 
>>> plugins for do that?
>>>
>> I do it the same way bacula does it for the catalog. mysql or
>> postgresql dump utilities. This is good if the database can be dumped
>> in a few minutes. For example the 27GB database for my bacula catalog
>> dumps in less than 10 minutes (actually the whole job finishes in that
>> time).
>
> You ever tried restoring a postgres dump?  I've spent some time trying
> to sort mine out because the restore and re-index time was 3-4 hours and
> the only solution to this was four times as many disks.
>
Yes I have done that with my bacula catalog (it is postgres) but I do
not remember how long this took. I did that 1 to  2 years ago.

John

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