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rbollinger1212's avatar
rbollinger1212
Level 4
9 years ago

Evault 10 - Vault backup mode.

We are running evault 10. i suspect that out backup software has been running and backing up vault when backup was not set on the Vault stores or the indexs.

I manually set the backup mode while the backup was running when i caught the issue tonight. My question is as follows:

1) What happens to vault if backup mode is enabled when a backup is running? Does it still go into read only mode?

2) What kind of backups can we expect to have if vault is not set into backup mode, and is backed up anyways?

Thanks,

Robert

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  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    1) Yes.

    2) Probably not particularly good ones, but you might be lucky.

     

    It's all down to whether or not changes are happening to the environment when you are performing a backup.

    • rbollinger1212's avatar
      rbollinger1212
      Level 4
      9 years ago

      Rob

      Thanks for the answer. On 1) IF you place evault into backup mode while it is being backed up will it cause any problems? data corruption etc? deadlocks?

      Thanks,

      Robert

      • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
        Rob_Wilcox1
        Level 6
        9 years ago

        As far as I remember you're just running the risk of the backup not being consistent. So you could just throw away that backup, or mark it as 'suspect' in some way, and do a new 'proper' one.