I had a system running bacula 2.4 (Debian lenny, 32 bit Pentium). This system was backing itself up; all the bacula components were on it. The machine died, along with the primary disk.
I would like to recover from the backups to a system running bacula 5.2.6 (Debian testing, soon to be wheezy, 64 bit core i3). I backed up to disk and then copied the files around. I have the backup files, the bsrs and, as one of the files backed up, a dump of the catalog (I also have a backup of the original database after it was shut down, but that's probably not as useful.) I also have at least old versions of the conf files (outside of the backup data, which of course has the latest versions) and the key files. The old system used Postgres 8.3 (or 8.2); the new has 9.1, though 8.4 is also available. I've installed bacula and postgres on the new system from Debian packages. Any advice on how to proceed? In particular, will the bsr's from 2.4 be useable with 5.2? Will the backup sets be readable/in the right format? Given that I have the bsr's, is recovering the original database a good idea? What would be involved? I'm guessing that once I manage to extract the dump from the backup files I'd need to insert it in the database (after deleting its current contents) and then run upgrade scripts on it. Does 32 vs 64 bit raise any extra issues? If there are big compatibility issues, I could reconstruct the old system in a VM. I'm sure that would be a bit of a project, and so I'd prefer to avoid it. Thanks for any help. Ross Boylan P.S. My searching found information on recovering from a crash within the same version and upgrading a functioning system across versions; it didn't find anything about the combination of version change and disaster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
