Hmm, thanks. With that news I'm at a stand still with full volumes. Would
it work to mount the storage on to the same server that does the backup?
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dirk Bartley <bartle...@chartermi.net>wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:57 -0800, Bob Gamble wrote:
> > Can someone explain to me how a migration or copy is generally
> > supposed to work? In my mind, I would like to take a full volume,
> > which has Full/Differential/Incremental backups in it and copy or
> > migrate it to another storage server.
>
> Greetings
>
> Currently, migration and copy only works within the same storage daemon.
> So if you have a single storage host with multiple storage devices it
> works. I use it by backing up to disk overnight. Then in the morning,
> running copy jobs from disk to tape. It works like a charm. It's great
> for running to a guaranteed working device then later put it to a tape
> device.
>
> http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/Migration_Copy.html
>
> "Migration is only implemented for a single Storage daemon. You cannot
> read on one Storage daemon and write on another."
>
>
> Feel free to put in a feature request
> http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=feature-request
>
> Dirk
>
>
>
>
> > I know the volume contains good backups and is marked as "Full."
> >
> > If I estimate the job, it seems to report a full backup would be
> > copied or migrated. Here is my configuration of bacula-dir.conf for
> > this particular volume:
>
> > However, I want to see the "whole volume" migrated or copied. I am
> > also unsure if the above configuration is correct. The storage I want
> > to copy from is called simply "File" and the storage I want to copy to
> > is called "File2." I do have both of these defined in the
> > configuration. I am being asked to keep volumes from this and other
> > backup sets indefinitely. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank
> > you.
> >
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