On 7/28/2010 6:35 AM, Bill Szkotnicki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a server doing backups with bacula onto a file system.
> The director is version 2.4.4
> and the database is mysql.
> It does the backups for a variety of clients ( mac, windows, and linux 
> clients )
>
> Now I am in the process of setting up a new server to take over.
> It is bigger and faster.
>
> Is there any documentation about for this?
>
> The new machine will have the same IP address as the old one.

Not required for Bacula to function.  Any networking restrictions aside.

> I would hope that it would not be necessary to go around and update all the 
> clients out there on older machines.

All the FD needs to know:  is this bacula-dir on my list?  is it 
presenting the right password?  Where the bacula-dir is located is not 
relevant.

>
> I could move the database into the new machine and the new director should 
> just take over from where the old one left off not having to redo the full 
> backups etc...

Right.  That's all that should happen.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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