Kilaru Sambaiah wrote:
> Hello All,
> I am looking for mssql database backup using bacula.
> Is it possible using some third party softwares?
> How to go about it?
Here I define a maintenance plan which dumps the databases to files, and
then tell bacula to back up those files.
I also have a little bash script which I run via Cygwin which gzip's the
database backups first (you can typically get 10:1 compression on them!)
The script is something like this (might not be quite the version in
use, but you get the idea):
#!/bin/sh
# Script to compress and prune old SQL Server backups
# 2004/08/25 (c) Russell Howe
# 2004/10/12 - Updated to compress transaction log files (*.TRN)
# Where the backups live (D:\SQLBACKUP)
BACKUPDIR=/cygdrive/j/sqlbackup
# How many days of backups to keep (this is real days, not weekdays!)
# FIXME: Change to "How many copies of each database to keep"
KEEPDAYS=7
###################################################################
# PATH not set?!
PATH=/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin
# Time in seconds since start of 1970 (GNU extension to date(1))
NOW="$(date +%s)"
# Convert KEEPDAYS to seconds
KEEPSECS="$((KEEPDAYS * 24 * 60 * 60))"
# Anything before this time gets torched.
DEATHPOINT="$((NOW - KEEPSECS))"
# To the backups!
cd "$BACKUPDIR"
# Only delete backups which have been compressed.
# This way, if the script goes nuts, it won't delete things until at
least one
# day later (day 1, this script runs, compresses .bak file. Day 2, sees
a .gz
# file, which it 'processes').
# If there are no .gz files, then "for file in *.gz" behaves oddly.
Check explicitly.
ls *.gz > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
for file in *.gz; do
FILEMTIME="$(stat -c %Y "$file")"
if [ "$FILEMTIME" -lt "$DEATHPOINT" ]; then
echo "Deleting $file! It is $(( ( DEATHPOINT -
FILEMTIME ) / 3600))
hours too old!"
rm -vf "$file"
else
echo "$file is less than $KEEPDAYS days old. Keeping."
fi
done
else
echo No compressed backups found!
fi
# Database backups are .BAK files, transaction log backups are .TRN files.
# You might think this is possible in one ls command, but it isn't. ls
*.bak *.trn
# only returns a success code iff there are both *.bak files AND *.trn
files, so we
# have to do the listing twice and compare both response codes.
ls *.[Bb][Aa][Kk] > /dev/null 2>&1
bakret=$?
ls *.[Tt][Rr][Nn] >/dev/null 2>&1
trnret=$?
if [ "$bakret" == 0 -o "$trnret" == 0 ]; then
echo "Compressing new backups"
# If we don't nice this, the server grinds to a halt running
# gzip. Crappy process/IO scheduler?
# Silly case-insensitive Windows
nice gzip -v9 *.[Bb][Aa][Kk] *.[Tt][Rr][Nn]
else
echo "No backups to compress!"
fi
--
Russell Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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