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On 01/11/2013 04:42 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
>
> In message
> <20130110095801.Horde.OlSoM06jTahQ7oKZVfIUClA AT webmail.kwsoft DOT de>
> you wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed that running "make_catalog_backup.pl" with a
>>> PostgreSQL database runs "pg_dump -c" (i. e. without specifying
>>> a database), which results in a full dump of the whole DB
>>> server, including far more than the Bacula catalog.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug, or intentional? If the latter, what is the
>>> rationale?
>>
>> I would say that this is intentional for people just want to use
>> Bacula and therfore need a database. If you use the Bacula
>> database in a non standard way eg. for more that just Bacula, you
>> should also be able to roll out your own backup strategie for the
>> DB.
>
> I think you minsunderstand.
>
> I am not using the bacula DB in any nonstandard way or for other
> purposes.
>
> The problem I see / the question I have is that the script
> "make_catalog_backup.pl" as distributed with bacula will not only
> dump the bacula database, but _all_ databases on the whole
> PostgreSQL _server_.
>
> If I use one machine as a DB server, I might use it to hold other
> databases (completely unrelated to bacula) as well. I've been
> using MySQL so far, and here "make_catalog_backup.pl" will dump
> only the bacula DB (i. e. MyCatalog). When using a PostgreSQL
> server, the script will not dump only this one DB, but all other,
> completely unrelated databases as well (plus the DB schema and what
> else).
>
> I think this is not correct - I may end up backing up many, many
> gigabytes of data which are totally unrelated.
Furthermore, the MySQL counterpart of this script does NOT do this. In
fact, it only backs up the bacula database (which I just recently
realized I have to modify to back up my alternate catalog).
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