RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
back in business. -Original Message- From: "Döhr, Markus ICC-H" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 14:49 To: Kevin Wilson Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories > What do you mean by logical backup? My full backup is done in > onl

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
r 16, 2005 14:05 To: Kevin Wilson Cc: Maxdb (E-mail) Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories > I have a full backup exported out every night. So if a drive > were to fail and I have to restore from tape then would > restoring sata1 and whatever it copied of sata2 an

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
> I have a full backup exported out every night. So if a drive > were to fail and I have to restore from tape then would > restoring sata1 and whatever it copied of sata2 and then > running a full recovery bring me back to life? Yes - but not the "online backuped database volumes" - those need

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 13:42 To: Kevin Wilson Cc: Maxdb (E-mail) Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories > Install locations specified during setup are: > > iprogram = /sata1 > idata= /sata2 > backups = /hdc1 (autologs) >/

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
> Install locations specified during setup are: > > iprogram = /sata1 > idata= /sata2 > backups = /hdc1 (autologs) >/sata3 (full backups) If you want just to keep the binaries backup /sata1, if you need a real functional database you need to shutdown the system and backup the fil

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 13:15 To: Kevin Wilson; Maxdb (E-mail) Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories If you wanna be sure shutdown the database and backup then. > Seeing how the data directories are changing but I wonder if > I could exclude the pat

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
If you wanna be sure shutdown the database and backup then. > Seeing how the data directories are changing but I wonder if > I could exclude the path but backup the > rest and it be ok? This depends on where you datafiles are - and it also depends if you're using 7.3 or greater. 7.3 stores it'

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
Seeing how the data directories are changing but I wonder if I could exclude the path but backup the rest and it be ok? -Original Message- From: Kevin Wilson Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 13:02 To: Maxdb (E-mail) Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories ok, sys down

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 13:03 To: Kevin Wilson Cc: Maxdb (E-mail) Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories Kevin, This is not really a good idea with a database that is currently running. The backup software will only be able to capture each file a few chunks at a time

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Joe Haynes
cember 16, 2005 12:41 > To: Kevin Wilson; Maxdb (E-mail) > Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories > > > > I want to have our tape backup system come in and copy to > > tape the full directory tree(s) of where maxdb is installed > > while the

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
, December 16, 2005 12:41 To: Kevin Wilson; Maxdb (E-mail) Subject: RE: backup of installation and data directories > I want to have our tape backup system come in and copy to > tape the full directory tree(s) of where maxdb is installed > while the database is running in online

RE: backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Döhr, Markus ICC-H
> I want to have our tape backup system come in and copy to > tape the full directory tree(s) of where maxdb is installed > while the database is running in online mode. Is there any > reason I cannot do this? No but you will not be able to backup the data files since they are open and used by

backup of installation and data directories

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Wilson
I want to have our tape backup system come in and copy to tape the full directory tree(s) of where maxdb is installed while the database is running in online mode. Is there any reason I cannot do this? Thanks -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To un