On 20 Oct 2006 at 7:54, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:36:50AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 20 Oct 2006 at 7:29, Ross Boylan wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:24:57AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > > On 19 Oct 2006 at 22:01, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have a new machine where I want to run bacula (that is the
> > > > > director, the storage pools, the database), and wonder if
> > > > > anyone has any advice on how to move over to it.
> > > > >
> > > > > For example, would this work?
> > > > > 1) install bacula
> > > > > 2) copy configuration files (*.conf) from old machine
> > > > > 3) migrate my database from the old machine (I'm using
> > > > > PostgreSQL). The old machine is using an older version of the
> > > > > database, so I'd like to migrate to the newer version at the
> > > > > same time. 4) copy the spool directory to which I write disk
> > > > > backups to the new machine.
> > > >
> > > > Copy may not be necessary. Just creating the directories should
> > > > be enough. The pool directory should be empty when jobs are not
> > > > running.
> > >
> > > I meant copying the contents of the spool directory.
> >
> > I meant spool. Not spool.
> ?
> pool not spool?
> I may not know what the pool directory is; I thought it meant the
> place bacula writes to disk when using FileStorage. I happen to have
> that set to a spool directory: Device {
> Name = FileStorage
> Media Type = File
> Archive Device = /var/spool/bacula
> ... in bacula-sd.conf
>
When you move it over to the new machine, I'd recommend a new name.
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Data_Spooling.html
Best not to confuse the issue by using a name already in Bacula
terminoligy.
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