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/

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