Hello,
bscan is very useful, but in my opinion, if you are using it, you have
done something wrong. It would be a lot faster to start with a 5.2.13
database, prune or purge anything you don't want, and maybe run dbcheck
to clean it up a bit, then upgrade it. Although I have not tried it,
the update_database_tables shipped in version 7.4.x should be able to
upgrade all the way from a 5.0 to the current database, and it will
probably do it in one execution. Even if it fails, it would probably be
easier to upgrade the database than get involved with a potentially very
lengthy bscan.
If you cannot get the upgrade to work in a reasonable time, you can
always fall back to bscan.
Best regards,
Kern
On 02/15/2017 02:59 PM, Steven Hammond wrote:
> We are currently using the community edition 5.2.13 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS.
> We are looking are upgrading to the latest 7 version and upgrading to
> Ubuntu 16.04LTS. We are not looking at an in-place upgrade, but instead
> we are looking at wiping the machine and will reconfigure it for RAID-10
> (as opposed to RAID-5). Our current backup scenario is to backup to
> disks and then copy to tapes. The volumes on disk are only for the most
> recent backups (e.g., last month) so we don't mind them disappearing
> since we have copies on tape. However, I wanted to run this upgrade
> scenario by the list to see if there is anything we need to watch out
> for. Essentially, we plan on doing the following:
>
> 1. Convert from RAID-10 to RAID-5 of bacula server.
> 2. Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> 3. Install Bacula (community version 7.XX)
> 4. Use BSCAN to recreate our Bacula catalog
>
> My main concern is if we recreate the catalog from the tapes and the
> tapes were marked as COPY, will we still be able to restore from them if
> need be in the future (since the disk volumes that were marked BACKUP
> are gone)?
>
> Steven Hammond
> I.T. Manager
> Cleburne, TX
>
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