Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to a different system

On 03/26/10 11:58, Peter Eisch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I needed to move the tape changer device from the bacula dir/sd with disk
> (volga) to a system running just the sd (ruhr).  I can status/mount/umount
> from the dir (volga) just fine.
> 
> The problem comes when it's time to migrate.
> 
> 26-Mar 10:50 volga-dir JobId 74: Start Migration JobId 74,
> Job=onlineca-migrate.2010-03-26_10.50.19_44
> 26-Mar 10:55 ruhr-sd JobId 74: Fatal error: Device reservation failed for
> JobId=74: 
> 26-Mar 10:50 volga-dir JobId 74: Fatal error:
>      Storage daemon didn't accept Device "someDev" because:
>      3924 Device "someDev" not in SD Device resources.
> 
> I assumed that during the migrate that the dir reads the volumes and feeds
> it to the sd/tape.  Instead it appears by the errors that the the sd on the
> sd/tape system only looks locally for the media to migrate.  I don't have a
> definition in the bacula-sd.conf on the sd system for "someDev' because it's
> not local.
> 
> I can work around this by adding the Device entry for "someDev" on the
> sd/tape system and NFS mounting the media.  This seems kludgy.  Is there a
> more elegant way have the sd/tape get the media from the dir/sd system?

You cannot (yet) copy or migrate jobs between different SDs.  Is it
feasible for you to have ruhr publish the tape changer as an iSCSI
target and have volga connect to it?



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