Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] moving clients to a new director

2011-11-04 17:45:29
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] moving clients to a new director
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Ben Walton <bwalton AT artsci.utoronto DOT ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:43:34 -0400
On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Dan Langille wrote:

> On Nov 4, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Ben Walton wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am currently running two distinct bacula setups.  The director of
>> the original setup is a client of the the new, but that is the only
>> link between the two right now.  Both director nodes also run the only
>> storage node for their particular set of clients.
> 
> FYI, I think this message was held up by moderation and has already been 
> answered.

My apologies.  I am entirely wrong.  I had the wrong month in my head…. Sorry.

> 
>> 
>> I'm considering collapsing these two setups such that I have two
>> storage nodes and only one director.
>> 
>> While that's easy enough to do in a slash and burn style, I'd like to
>> maintain the current set of volumes and job information if possible.
>> Is there an easy/sane way to do this?
>> 
>> I think it would look something like:
>> 
>> 0. Stop dir1.
>> 1. Add clients from dir1 to dir2, perform required client config for
>>  each client.
>> 2. Add storage config to dir2 to reference storage daemon on dir1.
>> 3. Use bscan to import existing volumes from dir1 into catalog of
>>  dir2.
>> 
>> Am I nuts?  Has anyone done something similar?
> 
> -- 
> Dan Langille - http://langille.org
> 

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org


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