Mike Ruskai wrote: > On 2/10/2010 10:52 AM, JanJaap Scholing wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> >> One question, how to backup the catalog. >> >> >> We are using MySQL for the bacula catalog. This database is >> approximately 46 Gb in size. >> >> When we use the backup script make_catalog_backup (supplied with >> bacula) to dump the database, bacula is not usable during the >> mysqldump process due to locked tables. >> >> >> In this case its not possible to make a backup of the catalog every >> day. We don’t like a not responding bacula system ;) >> >> >> My question is how do you make a good backup of the catalog without >> interrupting the bacula functionality? >> >> >> Thanks and regards >> >> Jan Jaap >> >> > So you want to back up a database while still being allowed to write > to that database at the same time? It's simply not possible as > stated. Your options, as far as I know, are these: > > 1) Dump the database, as the Bacula script does, and wait for it to > complete. > > 2) Flush the tables and copy the database files (if MyISAM), which > may or may not be faster (still must prevent DB writes). > > 3) Set up a slave database that uses MySQL replication to mirror the > master database. When you want to backup, take the slave offline to > do a dump or copy, leaving the master free to continue working. You > will not back up whatever changes were made since the slave was taken > offline. > > I haven't messed around with MySQL replication just yet, so I don't > know how easily option 3 will work in practice. But if you don't want > Bacula to be offline while doing a DB backup, that's your only real > option. Even the expensive commercial DBMS's don't have a very good > solution to doing live backups. > If you use Postgresql, you could put database in backup mode for hot backup = http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html.
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