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Re: chicken and egg (now: backuping DBMSs)



HI

I backup databases as regular files.
I use dump and restore (or ufsdump and ufsrestore on solaris)
if I define the device correctly (my tape is on solaris) and I 
use the newer version of dump which has the -a option
(this does not come with rh60, i had a link for it in lwn, one befor the
last lwn.)
this is a good utility which can make whole backups and updates (level
0-9)

regards
erez.


Eli Marmor wrote:
> 
> erez@savan.com wrote:
> 
> > 2. try using dump instead of tar, this is really ment for backup
> 
> Speaking about backuping, and also about databases like MySQL (in
> another linux-il thread), let me ask you (you=linux-il subscribers)
> to share your experience with backuping file-systems which include
> running databases. I know that there are special backup methods for
> databases. Do you use them?  Are there special backup tools (e.g.
> BRU2000, etc.) which support databases and/or even know how to speak
> with them so backups can be done during normal running of the
> database?  And is there any way to backup databases incrementally?
> Imagine a database of many megabytes, with some records modified
> daily; It is not acceptable that the whole database should be copied
> daily, and there must be a better way...
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Eli Marmor
> 
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