On Wednesday, 11.02.2004 at 21:42 -0600, Frank Smith wrote:
> > I haven't seen this question in the list or archives. How do I
> > gracefully move amanda databases from one (Irix) server to a new one
> > (Linux). I expect to handle the build and configuration on the new
> > host. I'll be moving our Exabyte jukebox from old to new host.
> >
> > Once the hardware and build dances are done, can I just (translate
> > and?) move some files from the old server to the new one, keeping
> > the same catalogs etc to access our current inventory of backups?
>
> I've never moved between platforms, but I did move our server from one
> Linux host to another. As I recall, all I had to do was copy over the
> config directories to the new server and update .amandahosts on all
> the clients (both were built with almost identical configs). All the
> files (indexes, tapelists, configs,etc.) are just text files, so you
> shouldn't have a problem (unless you were using 'localhost'). I would
> be sure to verify that you can read the old tapes properly on the new
> server in case there is some byteorder issue. Don't forget that if
> the OS of the server and client are different, if you used dump to
> backup then you need to restore onto a client that is the same OS as
> the original filesystem.
Similar experience here, too. Not a problem moving from RH Linux 7.3 to
Debian Woody ... just copy across all the /var/log/amanda and
/etc/amanda stuff.
Our only slight issue was the 'localhost' one given above. However,
anything needing to be *restored* to the host that was previously called
'localhost' can of course just be restored to the 'new' localhost and
then copied across to the correct machine.
I guess your *real* question is whether *Irix* to Linux will be an
issue. Generally, though, it seems that a move from system to system
should not be a big deal ...
Dave.
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Dave Ewart
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Cancer Research UK
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