On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:01, Dr. Michael A. Mackey wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:54 -0800, Joshua Kugler wrote: > > On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:10, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > 1. Backup up data as it changes. > > > > > > If I am not mistaken, this is part of fnctl() and the program is > > > notified by a signal. The problem with implementing this at the moment > > > is that Bacula is job based, and things are only backed up by a running > > > job. Probably this could be changed, but what I would propose is that > > > if this interests someone, he simply create a job that reads a > > > particular file. The monitor program could then be separate from Bacula > > > and when it wants something backed up, it writes the filename to a file > > > and starts a Bacula job. If this were something a lot of users used > > > and wanted, it could be more tightly integrated with Bacula later. > > Do we really need bacula to provide this level of fault-tolerance? I > use hardware disk-mirroring and get this without a performance hit.
Some may, some may not. Hardware disk mirroring is great if your servers are completely "safe." In my case, our backup servers will soon be moving off-site for additional safety. In this case, backup-as-a-file-is-changed would be nice. Should the building burn down in the middle of the day, the data has still been backed up. Extreme case, yes, but a valid example. j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
