Hello, On 3/1/2007 3:03 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > MaxxAtWork wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>when upgrading a bacula backup environment with many clients >>from which side is wiser to start? Clients or director/sd ? >>In other words which of these two situations is less likely to be troublesome: >>- old client talking with new director/sd >>- new client talking with old director/sd >> >>I'm thinking of an environment where at least some of the machines have bacula >>installed with e.g. Linux distro packages, so 'installing in an >>alternate directory' >>is not an easy option to follow, and the upgrade cycle is not >>applicable all-at-once >>on all the machines involved, otherwise some important backups would be >>skipped.
Quite a common problem, I think... >>Thank you > > > I upgraded the machines one by one, starting with the director when I > went from 1.38.11 to 2.0.2. The more distro packages you can use, the > faster this process will go. I was able to get it all done in one > workday, so my backups were not affected, but my understanding is that a > 2.0.x director will back up a 1.38.x client just fine. I wouldn't > recommend the other way 'round, really. I usually upgrade the director first, too. That works as long as you can be sure the basic protocols are not changed, and you don't use any new features for old clients. The first assumption can be easily checked with a test setup (or by asking on this list :-) For example, I had 1.37.something clients running with a pre-2.0 DIR without problems. Obviously, I did not implement the new run script setup syntax, or encryption, or new fileset options. The DIR and the SD more commonly need to be the exact same version, but that's usually much easier to manage - unless you run more SDs than FD which I doubt ;-) Even if I never tried it, I'm sure you can have a higher-version FD running with a lower-version DIR and SD, but I would not recommend that. Partly because the reasons for an upgrade, i.e. new features or bug fixes, mostly happen in the DIR. Arno > - -- > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFF5jSMmb+gadEcsb4RAheZAJoCzS5iU6xa+8QiF+TgxhnwrJdwEgCeLJgo > T6SmjKbwk6+o7RPmsos/lAI= > =ZHAd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
