On 7/28/2010 6:35 AM, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server doing backups with bacula onto a file system. > The director is version 2.4.4 > and the database is mysql. > It does the backups for a variety of clients ( mac, windows, and linux > clients ) > > Now I am in the process of setting up a new server to take over. > It is bigger and faster. > > Is there any documentation about for this? > > The new machine will have the same IP address as the old one.
Not required for Bacula to function. Any networking restrictions aside. > I would hope that it would not be necessary to go around and update all the > clients out there on older machines. All the FD needs to know: is this bacula-dir on my list? is it presenting the right password? Where the bacula-dir is located is not relevant. > > I could move the database into the new machine and the new director should > just take over from where the old one left off not having to redo the full > backups etc... Right. That's all that should happen. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
