Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Jason Martin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:32:32PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 12 Nov 2007 at 10:27, Jason Martin wrote: > John: I think you meant Jason? > that was well written. Thank you. Can we add the above, > copy/paste, to http://wiki.bacula.org/ ? There is something similar > for Oracle, but what

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Nov 2007 at 10:27, Jason Martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:00:04PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2007 at 9:48, Jason Martin wrote: > > > > use, best practice is to dump the data to an ASCII file, then backup > > > > the file. > > > I'd suggest that it would be better to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Jason Martin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 01:00:04PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 12 Nov 2007 at 9:48, Jason Martin wrote: > > > use, best practice is to dump the data to an ASCII file, then backup > > > the file. > > I'd suggest that it would be better to follow whatever procedure > > is proscribed by the DBMS

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Clyde O Goffe
Hey I want to thank you guys for the info. It was very helpful. -Clyde On Nov 12, 2007 1:00 PM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 Nov 2007 at 9:48, Jason Martin wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:37:01PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > If you are backing up databases or other

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Nov 2007 at 9:48, Jason Martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:37:01PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > If you are backing up databases or other data files which may be in > > use, best practice is to dump the data to an ASCII file, then backup > > the file. > I'd suggest that it would b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Jason Martin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:37:01PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > If you are backing up databases or other data files which may be in > use, best practice is to dump the data to an ASCII file, then backup > the file. I'd suggest that it would be better to follow whatever procedure is proscribed by

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Nov 2007 at 11:06, Clyde O Goffe wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 11:00 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 12 Nov 2007 at 10:40, Clyde O Goffe wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have an idea of how Bacula handles open files on Linux and > > > Windows Systems but especially Linux. I ha

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread John Drescher
On Nov 12, 2007 11:38 AM, Clyde O Goffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great. Do you know if Bacula can be made to take advantage of VSS on Windows? > It does that as well. You can enable VSS in the config files on a per job bases. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Clyde O Goffe
Great. Do you know if Bacula can be made to take advantage of VSS on Windows? -Clyde On Nov 12, 2007 11:25 AM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 11:06 AM, Clyde O Goffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No actually I meant if a file is already open and in use(i.e. being > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread John Drescher
On Nov 12, 2007 11:06 AM, Clyde O Goffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No actually I meant if a file is already open and in use(i.e. being > read or updated) will Bacula complain when it tries to back it up. If > Bacula does not handle this by default can it be made to. I'm > evaluating Bacula for

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Clyde O Goffe
No actually I meant if a file is already open and in use(i.e. being read or updated) will Bacula complain when it tries to back it up. If Bacula does not handle this by default can it be made to. I'm evaluating Bacula for my organization and that's one of the key things we're looking for. Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Nov 2007 at 10:40, Clyde O Goffe wrote: > Does anyone have an idea of how Bacula handles open files on Linux and > Windows Systems but especially Linux. I haven't been able to find any > documentation on this so if you can point me to some that would be > great. Thanks. Can you be more sp

[Bacula-users] Bacula/Open files

2007-11-12 Thread Clyde O Goffe
Hey, Does anyone have an idea of how Bacula handles open files on Linux and Windows Systems but especially Linux. I haven't been able to find any documentation on this so if you can point me to some that would be great. Thanks. Regards, Clyde Goffe