Dear Andreas, In message <20130110095801.horde.olsom06jtahq7okzvfiu...@webmail.kwsoft.de> you wrote: > > > I noticed that running "make_catalog_backup.pl" with a PostgreSQL > > database runs "pg_dump -c" (i. e. without specifying a database), > > which results in a full dump of the whole DB server, including far > > more than the Bacula catalog. > > > > Is this a bug, or intentional? If the latter, what is the rationale? > > I would say that this is intentional for people just want to use > Bacula and therfore need a database. If you use the Bacula database in > a non standard way eg. for more that just Bacula, you should also be > able to roll out your own backup strategie for the DB.
I think you minsunderstand. I am not using the bacula DB in any nonstandard way or for other purposes. The problem I see / the question I have is that the script "make_catalog_backup.pl" as distributed with bacula will not only dump the bacula database, but _all_ databases on the whole PostgreSQL _server_. If I use one machine as a DB server, I might use it to hold other databases (completely unrelated to bacula) as well. I've been using MySQL so far, and here "make_catalog_backup.pl" will dump only the bacula DB (i. e. MyCatalog). When using a PostgreSQL server, the script will not dump only this one DB, but all other, completely unrelated databases as well (plus the DB schema and what else). I think this is not correct - I may end up backing up many, many gigabytes of data which are totally unrelated. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de To program is to be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
