Re: A variant on: possible issues with upgrade

2011-08-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 01:59:26PM -0400, Bryan Hodgson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > > It is not enough to backup different DLEs on a single client from > > a single server, you the client will only communicate with a single > > server at any give t

A variant on: possible issues with upgrade

2011-08-05 Thread Bryan Hodgson
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > It is not enough to backup different DLEs on a single client from > a single server, you the client will only communicate with a single > server at any give time. > This sounds like the answer to a question I have. Just checking

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-19 Thread John Hein
Jon LaBadie wrote at 18:49 -0400 on Jul 15, 2011: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:08:24PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > Thanks, Brian. So, basically, the upgrade in general is pretty > > straightforward. > > > > The key point, though, is that I am promoting an important Amanda > > client t

Purpose of Backups [was: possible issues with upgrade]

2011-07-18 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 7/18/11 12:58 PM, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:30:44AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:32:01 -0400 Chris Hoogendyk wrote: On 7/18/11 9:39 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: It is ALWAYS a good idea to test your restores. A good argument can be made that you ar

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:30:44AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:32:01 -0400 > Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > > On 7/18/11 9:39 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > > > It is ALWAYS a good idea to test your restores. > > > > > > A good argument can be made that you are not so much in

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:32:01 -0400 Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > On 7/18/11 9:39 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > It is ALWAYS a good idea to test your restores. > > > > A good argument can be made that you are not so much interested in > > backing up your system as in being able to restore it. > > Yo

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-18 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 7/18/11 9:39 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:43:25PM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: On 7/16/2011 17:04, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: That's perfect. I can gradually shuffle tapes over to the new system, and, eventually, all the tapes and all the clients will be there. During t

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:43:25PM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: > On 7/16/2011 17:04, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >That's perfect. I can gradually shuffle tapes over to the new system, > >and, eventually, all the tapes and all the clients will be there. > >During the transition, I can recover stuff

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-18 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:08:24PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Thanks, Brian. So, basically, the upgrade in general is pretty > straightforward. > > The key point, though, is that I am promoting an important Amanda client to > be the new Amanda server. During that process, there may be a per

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-16 Thread Christ Schlacta
On 7/16/2011 17:04, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: That's perfect. I can gradually shuffle tapes over to the new system, and, eventually, all the tapes and all the clients will be there. During the transition, I can recover stuff from either server according to which was covering the period of time in

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-16 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 7/15/11 6:49 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:08:24PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Thanks, Brian. So, basically, the upgrade in general is pretty straightforward. The key point, though, is that I am promoting an important Amanda client to be the new Amanda server. During

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-15 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:08:24PM -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Thanks, Brian. So, basically, the upgrade in general is pretty > straightforward. > > The key point, though, is that I am promoting an important Amanda > client to be the new Amanda server. During that process, there may > be a pe

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Thanks, Brian. So, basically, the upgrade in general is pretty straightforward. The key point, though, is that I am promoting an important Amanda client to be the new Amanda server. During that process, there may be a period of time when the old server (running 2.5.1p3) will be talking to this

Re: possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-15 Thread Brian Cuttler
Chris, We followed a very similar path for our E250s, to T2000 upgrades. The E250 eventually not having the bandwidth to backup the servers. I have now installed 3.3.0 on several of my systems, a Sparc and several x86, though they where all Solaris 10. I don't know how many E250s you have, but

possible issues with upgrade

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
I'm in the process of doing an upgrade and thought I should check with the list before plunging forward to see if anyone else has done it quite like this or has any comments or suggestions. Original set up: Amanda 2.5.1p3 on a collection of E250's running Solaris 9. Spare E250 set up as a backu