On 07/28/10 06:35, Bill Szkotnicki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a server doing backups with bacula onto a file system.
> The director is version 2.4.4
> and the database is mysql.
> It does the backups for a variety of clients ( mac, windows, and linux 
> clients )
> 
> Now I am in the process of setting up a new server to take over.
> It is bigger and faster.
> 
> Is there any documentation about for this?
> 
> The new machine will have the same IP address as the old one.
> I would hope that it would not be necessary to go around and update all the 
> clients out there on older machines.
> 
> I could move the database into the new machine and the new director should 
> just take over from where the old one left off not having to redo the full 
> backups etc...
> 
> I would appreciate any comments.


Bill,
If you're updating from v2.4.x to v5.x, it is strongly recommended that
you update all clients.  In particular, if you do not update clients,
new features such as Windows VSS support and accurate backup will fail.
 I don't remember whether 2.4-5.x is a *forced* client upgrade (i.e,
whether 2.4.4 is old enough that 2.4.4 clients will not work with 5.x
server daemons, period), but it would be extremely prudent.

You can retain your existing database, but you will have to apply the
interim database upgrade scripts to bring the SQL schema up to date, and
you may need to make some changes to your configuration files.


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