Hi there,

BRU and other backup vendors use proprietary tape format and there are no
utilities for tape format conversion. For migration from one backup solution
(BU1) to another (BU2) there are two options:
- Keep your BU1 in place for recovers only until retention policy for all
old data expires.
- Recover BU1 tapes to a disk and then backup up data with BU2 so you don't
have to keep BU1 around.
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I think that an important topic and that is why I started a new thread on
Amanda forums for discussion about best practices and real world experiences
for migration from BU1 to BU2
http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?p=47#post47

BTW, why do you migrate from BRU in the first place?

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Dmitri Joukovski


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda 
DOT org]
On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:32 AM
To: Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: BRU -> Amanda migration

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 at 11:48am, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote

> Has anyone migrated from BRU to Amanda?   I did google, but no significant
hits.
>
> We are using a Quantum SDLT320 tape drive with autoloader with 8 slots.
>
> slots 1 + 2 backup job 1 incremental daily / differential weekly
> slots 3 + 4 backup job 2 incremental daily / differential weekly
> slots 5 + 6 backup job 3 incremental daily / differential weekly
> slots 7 + 8 Full backup of all 3 jobs every month.

Amanda schedules backups differently than most backup programs out there. 
Read the archives/docs/FAQ for more hints as to the philosophy and come on 
back with specific questions about your setup.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University