Hi, Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012, 09:55:00 schrieb Masopust, Christian: > Short question: anyone using Bacula to backup Zarafa? What to consider? > Any pitfalls? > > Ok... these were 3 questions... :))
Collax provides a number of Zarafa based products; our basic backup technology is Bacula. So ... We do. :) 1) Consider combining Zarafa's internal backup technology (Brick Level Backup) with Bacula. We encourage users to create frequent incremental backups, which then can/should be stored for longer-term usage via Bacula. 2) You can simply dump the Zarafa database with mysqldump (or anything the like), possibly in conjunction with Bacula's bpipe plugin. This will result in no longer being able to create incremental backups, but depending on the size of your installation, that may well be OK. 3) File based backup of MySQL is possible, if appropriate steps are taken. Cannot tell you too much about that, though. If you do something like this, you might consider using Postgres for Bacula. This will help reduce load on each of the databases, and will reduce write access (Catalog) to the database your are backing up. In our own infrastructure, we do frequent Brick-level backups with Zarafa's tools, and backup up the database, the attachment store, and the brick-level store in daily incrementals via Bacula (and bpipe/mysqldump in case of the database). Best regards Bastian -- Collax GmbH . Basler Str. 115a . 79115 Freiburg . Germany p: +49 (0) 89-990 157-28 www.collax.com Geschäftsführer: Bernd Bönte, Boris Nalbach AG München HRB 173695. Ust.-IdNr: DE270819312 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
