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Diego Roccia wrote:
> Hi all,
> For my company we need to implement bacula as backup software. In a
> previous thread I've explained the infrastructure, and now I have more
> information on the hardware we are going to implement.
>
[...]
>
> My questions are:
>
> - Does somebody know something about Bacula support for Dell Tape
> Libraries? Will I be able to use all the features of my hardware? I
> didn't find it in Bacula supported libraries page.
That's because Bacula doesn't directly need to support your hardware,
Linux has to. If all functionality of your hardware is accessible from
within Linux, (or whatever OS you use) chances are Bacula will work just
as well. Bacula just uses standard tape commands and some scripting (for
mtx) to do whatever it needs to do.
> - I will need to stop mysql slave before and restart it after backup. I
> read the documentation but something is still not clear for me. Can I
> execute a "script on client before" and a "script on client after" and
> start the backup only "if success"? Or it's better to use a script on
> director that remotely stops the db engine?
You can use both. It also depends on how you back up your MySQL
databases. If you just grab MySQL's files from its data directories, you
have to shut it down. Alternatively, you could dump the databases (using
mysqldump) and then back up those db dumps. The advantage of the latter
is that restores are much easier and don't depend so much on your MySQL
version etc (ie if you changed MySQL versions since the backup was
taken, a restore might be very troublesome).
Greetings,
Michel
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