On 2/3/2011 8:49 PM, Randy Katz wrote: > On 2/3/2011 5:19 PM, Randy Katz wrote: >> I am happy to present this case to the list at this point in time! >> >> My director does not have the correct disk capacities and must be moved >> to a new physical >> machine in order to be able to complete the cycle(s) at hand. The >> Storage Devices are all >> disk based. >> >> What would be the best procedure/practice to move the Director to a new >> physical machine, >> assuming the new machine is setup and ready to go and has a new ip address? >> >> Your comments welcome, thanks! >> > My initial thoughts are: > > a. Compile and Install Bacula from scratch with same configure options. > b. Copy the Volume Data to new machine. > c. Perhaps copy log info from /var/bacula > d. Dump Database on old machine, migrate dump to new machine, > reinitialize database tables and import database. > e. Copy conf files from /etc/bacula from old to new machine. > f. Do dns update for Director FQDN > g. Test > > In this case I am assuming the machine name for Director will be the > same, the locations of files on Disk will be the same directory > names. > > Is there something obvious I am missing? Should this work?
Sounds right to me. No changes to clients required. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
