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Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 20:18:42
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:15:20 -0400
On 10/21/10 10:41, ivane91 wrote:
> Hi, I have a rails web and I want to backup it. I create the job ,
> and it's all ok, but bacula is sending data through network at the
> same time it's backuping. So, because there are files that changes
> (logs most importantly) and they are big, it produces errors. So i
> have to copy the entire folder to another place and do the backup
> point to that folder. So it does ok.
> 
> Is there a way to "create a temp file or folder" with bacula and
> backup this and not the "live" folder which is constantly changing??

What OS/filesystem is the client?  Specifically, what I'm driving at
here is, do you have any capability (Linux LVM, for instance) to take a
filesystem snapshot, then mount a clone of the snapshot somewhere and
back that up?


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