Hi, On 5/14/2007 5:53 PM, Flak Magnet wrote: ... > Now, because of the expanding use of bacula, we're going to virtualize the > director. What kinds of issues might I encounter? > > I have already thought of: > > With the new name, all configs will have to be tweaked to allow > communications > from the new director.
Definitely. > The old director will have to be decommissioned. Not explicitly necessary, I > know SD and FD can be controlled by multiple directors, but it's the intent > in my case. And a useful decision, to keep things simple to understand. > I'm wondering about the following: > > I've been using mySQL. I know how to get a dump of the database out, and how > to read that database back in. I intend to use that to "migrate" the > database to the mySQL server on the new director. I don't think that will > cause any problems. I'm open to being corrected. I don't think you'll encounter problems there. > With the director moving off of the original sun machine, I'm going to rename > the sd and fd on that machine. If I have to do restores, I know that I'll > have to change the restore-from devices and such. Currently their named > bacula-sd and bacula-fd. I intend to change them to [hostname]-fd/sd. Are > there any snafus I might encounter there? Just keep in mind that you'll have to start with a full backup again to allow simple full restores. I don't know if Bacula enforces that, but I suspect it will, because the FD name and FileSet ID combination is (IIRC) how Bacla identifies identical jobs. > Anything else? I don't think so... in any case, keep a copy of the catalog before migration, and only decomssion the old DIR after you ran all backups successfully with the new one. Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
