The enterprise version may have a pause feature, but the open-source one does not.
We run a slave database server and make a daily dump from that, knowing that it will not preserve the records being made for running jobs, but since the running jobs aren't complete when the dump begins, they wouldn't be useful records to have anyway (and we're willing to be behind by a day on our backups if a disaster were to occur). It's also possible to run a transactional engine on your master db and do a dump while jobs are running, but we found the dump times to be ridiculously high (like 12+ hours). Our Catalog is something like 300Gb. There are other options out there as well, like using a snapshot of your underlying filesystem, but, yeah, a pause feature sure would be nice for many many reasons. Stephen On 8/2/12 6:36 AM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: > Because I have quite a few long running jobs, my BackupCatalog job is not > getting run more than once or twice per week. I understand the potential > instability of backing up the catalog while there are running jobs. Is there > anything in the bacula pipeline that would pause running jobs so that the > catalog could be backed up? Say a snapshot capability? > > Patti Clark > Information International Associates, Inc. > Linux Administrator and subcontractor to: > Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Stephen Thompson Berkeley Seismological Laboratory step...@seismo.berkeley.edu 215 McCone Hall # 4760 404.538.7077 (phone) University of California, Berkeley 510.643.5811 (fax) Berkeley, CA 94720-4760 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
