I have a new machine where I want to run bacula (that is the director, the storage pools, the database), and wonder if anyone has any advice on how to move over to it.
For example, would this work? 1) install bacula 2) copy configuration files (*.conf) from old machine 3) migrate my database from the old machine (I'm using PostgreSQL). The old machine is using an older version of the database, so I'd like to migrate to the newer version at the same time. 4) copy the spool directory to which I write disk backups to the new machine. The layout of of the two machines will be similar. I'm using bacula-director-pgsql 1.38.11-6 on Debian. I backup to disk, and intermittently burn the disk files to DVD. I see there's been some discussion of a migration feature, but that looks as if it's oriented to a different problem, and it seems only to be in 1.39. Does bacula know (in the DB, presumably) what machine particular files or backups came from? Put differently, if I go through the above procedure, will bacula running on the new machine think the records in the database are talking about the new machine, or the old one? If it thinks they are from the old machine (which seems likely), is it possible to fake it out by changing the value of 1 or more fields in the DB? Would that be a good idea--for example, the new machine does not have exactly the same files as the old, so I could see bacula getting confused by fakes. Thanks. Ross Boylan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
