On Saturday 10 March 2007 19:25, Mike Seda wrote: > Hi Kern, > My proposed method may be feasible, but do you recommend a more elegant > solution to accomplish a migration job between two different tape pools > based on the storage resources at my disposal? I just want to make sure > before I make the necessary changes to my SAN fabric.
I'm not the best person to make such recommendations since I am not using Migration in production as hopefully some people are. Perhaps someone else from the list will have a better idea. > Regards, > Mike > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Friday 09 March 2007 02:33, Mike Seda wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> I too have switched off a few machines lately, and wish to save their > >> last complete backup to an Archive pool. Basically, I want to migrate a > >> few jobs from my "Weekly" pool to my "Archive" pool. Fortunately, I too > >> have one last full backup in the system, but since I only have one tape > >> drive migration is a bit tricky... I just wanted to run my temporary > >> solution by you before I implement it (btw, a second tape drive is in > >> our budget for next fiscal year): > >> > >> 1) Mount a 1 TB FC disk array (currently not being utilized) on the > >> bacula server > >> 2) Tell bacula the array is of Media Type "File" (my tape library is > >> Media Type "Tape"), and put it in the "Disk" pool. > >> 3) Do a migrate job from my "Weekly" pool to the "Disk" Pool. > >> 4) Do a migrate job from my "Disk" pool to the "Archive" Pool. > >> > >> Does this sound like a reasonable solution until I can spring for > >> another tape drive?... > > > > Obviously migrating with only one tape drive is not optimal, but what you > > describe sounds feasible. Be sure to mark the tapes you are taking > > offsite as Archive. > > > > We will be very interested to hear how this double migration works for > > you ... > > > >> Fyi, the array is fast (12 x 15 K FC disks in > >> RAID 5)... > >> > >> Fyi, my setup is: > >> Dell PE 2650 (1 x 73 GB RAID 1, 1 x 450 GB RAID 0 ) > >> Bacula 2.0.1 (400 GB of Data-Spooling configured to mitigate tape > >> shoe-shine, Current Pools=Weekly, Scratch) > >> RHEL 4 AS > >> Quantum PX502 (LTO-3, FC, 1-Drive) > >> > >> Regards, > >> Mike > >> > >> Alan Brown wrote: > >>> I have a number of machines which have been switched off in the last 6 > >>> months and want to save their last complete backup to an archive pool > >>> in order to both free up the main pool and to ensure there's one last > >>> copy of everything. > >>> > >>> In some cases, there is one last full backup in the system, so all > >>> that'd be required is a single jobID migration > >>> > >>> In other cases, the migrated last full backup would have to be made up > >>> of full+diff+inc > >>> > >>> Does anyone have cookiecutter instructions for this? > >>> > >>> If so, they should be added to the manual's Migration chapter. > >>> > >>> AB > >>> > >>> > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>-- 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=DEVD > >>>EV _______________________________________________ > >>> Bacula-users mailing list > >>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>- 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=DEVDE > >>V _______________________________________________ > >> Bacula-users mailing list > >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
