If Bacula is writing to Volumes mounted on an NFS filesystem, you will probably take an *enormous* performance hit compared to a local disk.
On Friday 23 March 2007 15:37, James Cort wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Migrating across Storage daemons is not implemented. > > > Thought as much. > > For the record, in case anyone else brings it up (and to make sure > there's a suggestion in the list archives) I'm working around it as > follows: > > * Setting up another pool which is disk-based going to files on an > NFS-mounted filesystem. > * Setting up *both* storage daemons to use this disk. > * Migrating from the DLT-v4 drive to the pool on the NFS mounted > filesystem. > * Unmounting the NFS filesystem on the DLT-v4 SD > * Mounting it on the PowerVault SD > * Migrating from the pool on the NFS-mounted filesystem to LTO-3 tapes > on the Powervault. > > Hopefully this will work. I'm ensuring data integrity by not mounting > the NFS filesystem on both SDs at the same time. I have no idea what > would happen if both were to try accessing the same volume > simultaneously and I have no wish to find out. Seeing as I only have > about 10 volumes to be migrated, this shouldn't be too laborious. > > -- > U4EA Technologies > http://www.u4eatech.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
