Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Stephan Ebelt wrote: > >> However, from the implementation point of view I think this is a bit of >> overhead since it requires local disk space being available and there >> must be additional logic to detect whether rsync actually succeeded... >> kind of similar to dumping some large SQL database (where one often can >> not afford the temporary disk space) > > In the specific case of SQL database backup, if you halt the SQL server > then you can safely backup the databases, however a dump means the > tables can be reconstructed on almost any SQL-speaking database server > (modulo minor tweaks)
yes. I just wanted another example where one might need additional temporary disk space during the backup process. SQL dumps just came in mind because of the way we use oracle here (it is not exactly the 'standard' way). We got around the 'temporary disk space' problem by pushing the dump straight through FIFOs into bacula (which works pretty well by the way). I can give more details off-list if someone is interested. best regards, Stephan ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
