> One question, how to backup the catalog.
>
> We are using MySQL for the bacula catalog. This database is approximately 46
> Gb in size.
>
> When we use the backup script make_catalog_backup (supplied with bacula) to
> dump the database, bacula is not usable during the mysqldump process due to
> locked tables.
>
> In this case its not possible to make a backup of the catalog every day. We
> don’t like a not responding bacula system ;)
>
> My question is how do you make a good backup of the catalog  without
> interrupting the bacula functionality?
>

Can't you backup the database after all of your backups are finished?
My database is around 30GB and it takes less than 20 minutes to backup
on a 5 year old Opteron 246 server.

John

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