On 03/17 07:48 , Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote:
> If I set up a clean install on a new system, how easy would it be to migrate 
> the existing pool to that?  

It's possible, but time-consuming. I know some people here have figured out
scripts for doing it, and I've done it with plain tar+netcat; but pretty
much no matter which way you do it, if your pool is of a non-trivial size
the amount of time it will take to move it is likely to be an unacceptable
number of days of downtime for your backup system.

This is why the best-practices advice on this mailing list for many years
has been to build a new backup server in parallel with the old one and just
start doing backups to that. Once everything is running, then you can shut
off the old server and keep it around in case you need to restore something
from it.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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