We are testing Bacula to see if it is possible to use it as a software for backups of an application thats uses Oracle as its database. We are planning to make full backup of the database "off line" every night. But, during all days, we are planning to make backup of the log files, for example, each 30 minutes. If any problem occurs with the database, we must restore the database from the backup tape of an especific date and then aplly all the log files since the same date. But if any problem occurs with the server that is running Bacula and we have to re-start the server we cannot loose the backups of the log files. For example, today is wednesday, May 24th and we have to recover the database since last friday, May 19th. And on monday, May 22th we had to re-start the server that runs Bacula. As we understood, we are going to loose all the sequence of the backups of the log files and we will not be able to recover tha database.
independent of the reason why he have to restart the bacula server, does anybody knows if have a way to resume a interrupted job? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cassiano Pilipavicius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>; "Aírton - Lifemed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ricardo Takeshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Resume interrupted jobs > On Wed, 24 May 2006, Cassiano Pilipavicius wrote: > >> Sometimes the tape get locked in the device. > > Why? Is something holding it active? > >> And we need to reboot the backup server to eject the tape. > > Why? Almost every tape drive has some magic code to force an eject. > (Try pressing the eject button 8 times or for 8 seconds) > >> And we also have power fails in our office sometimes. > > If the power is unreliable, UPSes are cheap insurance. > >> We are not using bacula in fact, just testing, so we didn't know how >> often this will happen. > > The answer to that is always "at the most inconvenient possible moment" > > Power in the UK countryside is quite unreliable and we would never > complete backups without use of large UPS units keeping all the servers > running. > > AB > > > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
