Kern,
Thanks for the input. One of the reasons for thinking of starting fresh
was we were considering redoing our current backup scenario. We
currently swap out tapes daily, weekly, and monthly (e.g., incremental -
M-H, differential - 2-4th Friday, full - 1st Friday). I was considering
getting rid of the M-H tapes and just using tapes as needed (our FULL
backups are less than 1TB and the daily tapes use only a small fraction
of the LTO-5 tapes). We are also looking at using the new feature in 7
to copy to an offsite SD since we work in a chemical plant and if the
main plant were to go up in smoke, there would be nothing but a crater
(ha). Thanks again for a great product.
Steven Hammond
On 2/15/2017 8:50 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> bscan is very useful, but in my opinion, if you are using it, you have
> done something wrong. It would be a lot faster to start with a 5.2.13
> database, prune or purge anything you don't want, and maybe run
> dbcheck to clean it up a bit, then upgrade it. Although I have not
> tried it, the update_database_tables shipped in version 7.4.x should
> be able to upgrade all the way from a 5.0 to the current database, and
> it will probably do it in one execution. Even if it fails, it would
> probably be easier to upgrade the database than get involved with a
> potentially very lengthy bscan.
>
> If you cannot get the upgrade to work in a reasonable time, you can
> always fall back to bscan.
>
> Best regards,
> Kern
>
> On 02/15/2017 02:59 PM, Steven Hammond wrote:
>> We are currently using the community edition 5.2.13 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS.
>> We are looking are upgrading to the latest 7 version and upgrading to
>> Ubuntu 16.04LTS. We are not looking at an in-place upgrade, but instead
>> we are looking at wiping the machine and will reconfigure it for RAID-10
>> (as opposed to RAID-5). Our current backup scenario is to backup to
>> disks and then copy to tapes. The volumes on disk are only for the most
>> recent backups (e.g., last month) so we don't mind them disappearing
>> since we have copies on tape. However, I wanted to run this upgrade
>> scenario by the list to see if there is anything we need to watch out
>> for. Essentially, we plan on doing the following:
>>
>> 1. Convert from RAID-10 to RAID-5 of bacula server.
>> 2. Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>> 3. Install Bacula (community version 7.XX)
>> 4. Use BSCAN to recreate our Bacula catalog
>>
>> My main concern is if we recreate the catalog from the tapes and the
>> tapes were marked as COPY, will we still be able to restore from them if
>> need be in the future (since the disk volumes that were marked BACKUP
>> are gone)?
>>
>> Steven Hammond
>> I.T. Manager
>> Cleburne, TX
>>
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