Hello, bscan is very useful, but in my opinion, if you are using it, you have done something wrong. It would be a lot faster to start with a 5.2.13 database, prune or purge anything you don't want, and maybe run dbcheck to clean it up a bit, then upgrade it. Although I have not tried it, the update_database_tables shipped in version 7.4.x should be able to upgrade all the way from a 5.0 to the current database, and it will probably do it in one execution. Even if it fails, it would probably be easier to upgrade the database than get involved with a potentially very lengthy bscan.
If you cannot get the upgrade to work in a reasonable time, you can always fall back to bscan. Best regards, Kern On 02/15/2017 02:59 PM, Steven Hammond wrote: > We are currently using the community edition 5.2.13 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS. > We are looking are upgrading to the latest 7 version and upgrading to > Ubuntu 16.04LTS. We are not looking at an in-place upgrade, but instead > we are looking at wiping the machine and will reconfigure it for RAID-10 > (as opposed to RAID-5). Our current backup scenario is to backup to > disks and then copy to tapes. The volumes on disk are only for the most > recent backups (e.g., last month) so we don't mind them disappearing > since we have copies on tape. However, I wanted to run this upgrade > scenario by the list to see if there is anything we need to watch out > for. Essentially, we plan on doing the following: > > 1. Convert from RAID-10 to RAID-5 of bacula server. > 2. Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS > 3. Install Bacula (community version 7.XX) > 4. Use BSCAN to recreate our Bacula catalog > > My main concern is if we recreate the catalog from the tapes and the > tapes were marked as COPY, will we still be able to restore from them if > need be in the future (since the disk volumes that were marked BACKUP > are gone)? > > Steven Hammond > I.T. Manager > Cleburne, TX > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
