Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread David Ballester
What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem. -- Marcio Merlone

Re: [Bacula-users] use an FTP to making backup ?

2009-03-18 Thread David Ballester
El mié, 18-03-2009 a las 04:29 -0700, Kevin Keane escribió: Write a shell script that retrieves the information from the FTP server into a directory on the local server. Then call that script as a Run Before Job script. Google for how to back up databases; it's the same fundamental

[Bacula-users] Server migration to another host and upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.4.2 at same time

2009-03-03 Thread David Ballester
Hi to all: This mail is only to say thanks for Bacula and is design :). I've migrated my backup server to another host ( changed postgresql version from 7.4 to 8.3 ) and upgraded in the new host from bacula 2.2.6 to 2.4.2 without any issue. I've the same catalog in the new database and clients

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto Backup Oracle with Bacula

2009-02-28 Thread David Ballester
El vie, 27-02-2009 a las 16:50 -0300, Victor Hugo dos Santos escribió: the principle of idea: In production environment downtimes of DB isn't allowed, for around this problem, we will need: 1 - Configure Oracle DB in backup mode 2 - Create a Snapshot from files 3 - Run a

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-27 Thread David Ballester
2008/11/27 David Jurke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whoa! Okay, I need to go talk to the DBAs about this lot, lots of it is too far on the DBA side for me to comment intelligently on it. It does sound promising, though - if we back up daily only the current month's data (the rest will be in static

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-27 Thread David Ballester
take a look at http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/pdf/oracle-openworld-2007/S291487_1_Chien.pdf Backup and Recovery Best Practices for Very Large Databases (VLDBs) Regards D. - This SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-26 Thread David Ballester
2008/11/25 David Jurke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiya David, I'm assured by our DBAs that this one-tablespace-at-a-time method works - it's apparently what Oracle recommend, and they do restores and recovers frequently for things like creating test databases, so it's a proven method. It could be

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-25 Thread David Ballester
El dc 26 de 11 del 2008 a les 07:34 +1300, en/na David Jurke va escriure: Thanks James, Sorry, missed that bit... Oracle on Linux. The database is, as you say, for the business, hence the need to back it up! And sadly no, our SAN doesn't support snapshots, or for sure I'd have been

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-25 Thread David Ballester
El dt 25 de 11 del 2008 a les 13:12 -0500, en/na Dan Langille va escriure: On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:10 AM, David Jurke wrote: The problem I have is with our large (expected to grow to several terabytes) database server. I’m told by the DBAs that the size and amount of activity on this

[Bacula-users] Calling client script ( Before / After jobs ) with parameters

2007-10-23 Thread David Ballester
Hi to all: I'm currently working on the integration with bacula and rman, the tool to make backups/restores of Oracle databases. Reading bacula documentation, seems that some releases before, the admin was able to define environment variables inside bacula ( and use them as parameters for the

[Bacula-users] [OT] Postgresql database enconding and heterogeneous clients

2007-10-09 Thread David Ballester
Hi to all: I've the bacula catalog under Postgresql and the database was created with UTF8 encoding. Now, trying to protect one 'old' client ( REDHAT 3 ) I get errors from backup job - better said, the errors are raised in the database - claiming for some characters not valid fro UTF8 encoding,

[Bacula-users] [OT] Postgres initial database encoding

2007-09-26 Thread David Ballester
Hi to all: Some days before I send a mail to the list asking about advices on problems with postgres database encoding and some bacula-fd in clients with incompatible encoding http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=1190366372.6121.21.camel%40localhost.localdomain AFAIK, there is