Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] why catalog backup

2009-03-09 04:27:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] why catalog backup
From: Ulrich Leodolter <ulrich.leodolter AT obvsg DOT at>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:19:28 +0100
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:44 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ulrich Leodolter
> <ulrich.leodolter AT obvsg DOT at> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > do i really need a daily catalog backup ?
> > (like the default setup)
> >
> > isn't it enough to dump (maybe rsync)
> > the catalog database to other system(s) ?
> >
> Yes, that will be fine. Make sure you properly dump and not just rsync
> the folder containing the database. I would have each dump compressed
> and have the name of the file contain the date of the dump.
> 
> Here is what I do daily for a different database backup:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> mkdir -p /var/backup/mythtv
> mysqlrepair --all-databases
> /usr/bin/mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg | /bin/bzip2 -c >
> /var/backup/mythtv/mythtv-`date +%F`.bz2
> 

Hello,

I think about snapshot backup

http://www.lenzg.net/mylvmbackup/

Thanks
Ulrich




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