Hello, On 3/2/2007 12:08 AM, Steen wrote: > Torsdag 01 marts 2007 21:07 skrev Arno Lehmann: ... >>>So if anyone's interested, I have a python script which will actually >>>do non-blocking IO (gasp, shock) over the FIFOs, waiting until any >>>one of them can accept data and only *then* launching connecting to >>>the database to fill the FIFO. It will also do the converse for >>>restoring data back to the databases, noticing newly created FIFOs >>>(created by a Bacula restore job) in the directory and trying to grab >>>data from them. >> >>Currently, I'm not interested but this sounds like areally great >>enhancement! >> >>You wrote that for PostgreSQL, but I suppose adapting it to other >>databases or whatever would not be too much of a problem, so I suggest >>you post it to the wiki at http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php or >>mail to the list. I'm sure that script will be helpful to many users, >>and I suppose it could be added to the user-contributed examples in the >>source code. >> >> >>>Note that this is definite overkill if you're okay >>>with doing one dump per server of all active databases. >> >>Depends on the available dump space vs. database size... > > I am reading this thread with interest and trying to understand. I thought > that the databases would dump 'through' the FIFO directly to Bacula - thus > eliminating the need for dump space - am I wrong here?
That's what can be achieved with a FIFO. The simpler solution is to dump to file and then back up that file. This is what the "standard" catalog backup script does, for example. Arno > Steen > >>Arno >> >> >>>-- >>>--Darien A. Hager >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>>Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >>>your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >>>http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Bacula-users mailing list >>>Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
