On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:38 +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: > > - 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.
Doh! You're right. It was so obvious :P. But the page "List of bacula supported tape drives" confused me. So, why does that page exist? > > - 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). 4/5 times a week, coders call my db administrator saying "ops, I dropped/ruined/ate the table X, now I need it as it was yesterday". So I need to give DB Admin a tool to quickly restore a single table (read "files") as it was x days ago (with 1<x<=4). The version mismatch problem is not applicable with this retention. thanks for the reply Diego ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
