On Wednesday 04 January 2006 23:17, Eric Peterson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before you flame me for still using tar let me explain my situation.
>
> I use Bacula to backup all my servers to hard drive volumes. I also use
> tar to tapes to do a daily backup of a few directories for offsite storage.
> I use tar because I know that I can get my data off with a minimal set of
> tools even in the event of failure of my backup server.
>
> My problem is that I have a very tight time window in which my backups need
> to run and various maintenance tasks also need to run. So I was wondering
> if I would be able to run my bacula backups and my tar backups at the same
> time or would they get in each other's way? In my mind, it would work fine
> as it seems that they should both be able to open the files for reading,
> but before I end up with broken backups I thought I would ask the good
> people on this mailing list.
You could get into trouble if Bacula is backing up a tar file that is being
written or vice versa otherwise, if I am not mistaken, they both open files
read-only.
>
> Kern, thanks for all your hard work and apcupsd too!
Thanks.
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Best regards,
Kern
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