Hi, 24.10.2007 10:44,, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:: > El mar, 23-10-2007 a las 20:35 +0200, Arno Lehmann escribió: >> Hello, >> > >>> I'm a completely python ignorant, and before spend time trying to >>> understand how to translate this behavior to python way of life, I >>> prefer ear from you. >> You won't get my ear :-) >> > > Ahem... ok, may be I prefer listen :P > > The abstract idea is to define the rman variables informed in the client > definitions and using the same job definition for standard backup > procedures
Yeah... well, passing the parameters through the command definition in the job should work. Getting them from outside of Bacula might be more complicated, but you'd have to try that... >> The rest of your approach seems reasonable and should be easily >> implemented. I found python was easy to learn and use, so for me it >> was definitely worth the effort. >> >> Of course, using bash or whatever shell you prefer can be done, too. I >> think it's more or less a question of what you prefer. >> >> If you start working on it, and expect to spend some time on this >> anyway, I'd suggest to pipe the rman output to Bacula directly, >> without the need of a dump file in between. That saves you a bit of >> disk space on the client. >> > > > That's very interesting, I will investigate how rman works with fifos, > but afaik, fifo has a maximum throughput of 8K/s, it's correct? Not per se... see here: neuelf:/tmp # mkfifo testfifo neuelf:/tmp # cat testfifo > /dev/null & [1] 22889 neuelf:/tmp # dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 of=testfifo count=2M 2097152+0 records in 2097152+0 records out 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 17.5983 s, 488 MB/s [1]+ Done cat testfifo > /dev/null A bit better than 8k/second, I'd say. This is on a dual-core Opteron running a 2.6.22.5 linux kernel, by the way. The machine is practically idle all the time. > >> The necessary parts are all available - you can backup from and >> restore to a FIFO in Bacula, and you can call scripts to set up the >> pipes and reader/writer processes. There are examples available, I'd >> start reading at wiki.bacula.org if I were you. >> > > I will take a look to see if fifo approach fits well in bacula/rman > integration. As far as I know, it should. Not being an Oracle user, I don't have the personal experience, though. Arno >> Of course, whatever you come up with might be worth adding to the >> wiki, too. >> >> Arno >> > > Thanks again > > D. > > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
