Re: [Bacula-users] Database backup via FIFO

[Dan L. <da...@la...>]

On 10 May 2005 at 15:09, Luca Villa wrote:

> Dear bacula users,
>  I'm using bacula in different situations since a while now and I
> would like to express my appreciation for the really impressive work
> that has been done on this piece of software. IMHO bacula is becoming
> the reference point as of backup software between open source
> solutions.
> 
> Now let's come to my questions:
> 
> I've some windows machine running SAP DB and I need to backup the DBs
> possibly without dumping them on disk (they are quite big!).
> Someone has experienced the use of FIFO in such situations on windows
> machines?
> Is it a viable solution? Any other suggestion?

FIFO is supported.  Please try it. Document your results.  Tell us.  
Thanks.
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