Hi, On 4/5/2007 12:23 AM, John Quigley wrote: > Hey Folks: > > This question pertains to Bacula's file/fileset locking mechanisms. > Imagine a data set that you've defined to be be backed up via Bacula, > across a network. The fileset is sufficiently large that it will take > several hours to properly transmit and store on the storage server. > What mechanisms have been put in place to prevent modification of the > local data set while this transaction is underway? I can't seem to find > reference to this in the dev/user documentation, so any insight or > pointers to further information would be hugely appreciated.
The only reasonable approaches to this problem seem to be 1) ignore it and 2) snapshots. Snapshots are not created by Bacula automatically, with the noteable exception of windows VSS backups. For unix-like systems, you could use a script run on the client before the job that creates a snapshot, then back up that instead of the 'normal' file system, and finally destroy the snapshot after your job finished. Arno > Thanks so much for your time and help =) > > - John Quigley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
