Hi there, yesterday I read about the nice point-in-time-recovery (PITR) feature of postgresql - and decided to use this in future. (See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/backup-online.html)
PITR gives you the ability to have really continuous backup of your postgresql-database. I saw mechanisms like that also on other databases like oracle and db2. In many cases the dbms-systems allow the definition of a hook-command which processes the arising dbms-logfiles. I.e. you can define such a hook in postgresql in that way: ---- archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/server/archivedir/%f </dev/null' ---- My question is: How can I continuously backup these files to a spoolfile and write this file to a tape at the end of the day ? If there currently no way to do this - are there some design-concepts to write a plugin-interface for the backup and restore of databases ? Another idea would be the integration of inotify (http://www.edoceo.com/creo/inotify/) - but I suppose that this isn't that portable like the existing code of bacula. I think this would be a big advance to make bacula more suitable for professional usage. Best regards Marc Schoechlin -- I prefer non-proprietary document-exchange. http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/ http://www.prooo-box.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
