> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to backup the mysql and mssql databases to a file and then
> let bacula backup the actual folder where my files are stored.
> 
> ...
>
> Now I need to backup mssql, I tried using its tool but the backup file
> is too big and I can't fit two backups into a harddrive. (uncompressed
> 200gb) (gz 2GB). I would like to setup a script that will start
> backing up the mssql database and pipe that through a gz program (7zip
> in windows 2000 for example) so that there is no intermediate step.
> 
> somecommand backup all > 7z.exe outputfile.gz ??
> 
> Is that possible. Would anybody have a script ready that they use? Can
> full, and differential backup be done with it?
> 

At this time the two options you have are:

1. Let VSS do its thing. This is _only_ reliable for a full backup.
Incremental and differential backups will not do what you expect - if
the .mdb file has changed since last backup it will be backed up,
otherwise it will not, and database updates do not always result in a
filesystem-visible change of the .mdb file. You also can't do point in
time restores etc using this method, only snapshot backups.

2. As you are already doing, back up the database and logs to files. If
you back up to a file and then back the file up using bacula then you
really don't need more than one backup on disk. If you want more, plug
in a USB disk and do the mssql backups to that.

James

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