Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from 5.2.13 to 7.XX

2017-02-15 Thread Steven Hammond
Kern, Thanks for the input. One of the reasons for thinking of starting fresh was we were considering redoing our current backup scenario. We currently swap out tapes daily, weekly, and monthly (e.g., incremental - M-H, differential - 2-4th Friday, full - 1st Friday). I was considering gett

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from 5.2.13 to 7.XX

2017-02-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
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

[Bacula-users] Upgrade from 5.2.13 to 7.XX

2017-02-15 Thread Steven Hammond
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 op