Fyi, my double migration was successfull... First I ran a job called T2D and then ran a job called D2T... Basically, I used a disk array as a temporary storage between the two tape pools... This was necessary since I only have one tape drive
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2007 19:25, Mike Seda wrote: > >> Hi Kern, >> My proposed method may be feasible, but do you recommend a more elegant >> solution to accomplish a migration job between two different tape pools >> based on the storage resources at my disposal? I just want to make sure >> before I make the necessary changes to my SAN fabric. >> > > I'm not the best person to make such recommendations since I am not using > Migration in production as hopefully some people are. Perhaps someone else > from the list will have a better idea. > > >> Regards, >> Mike >> >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >>> On Friday 09 March 2007 02:33, Mike Seda wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> I too have switched off a few machines lately, and wish to save their >>>> last complete backup to an Archive pool. Basically, I want to migrate a >>>> few jobs from my "Weekly" pool to my "Archive" pool. Fortunately, I too >>>> have one last full backup in the system, but since I only have one tape >>>> drive migration is a bit tricky... I just wanted to run my temporary >>>> solution by you before I implement it (btw, a second tape drive is in >>>> our budget for next fiscal year): >>>> >>>> 1) Mount a 1 TB FC disk array (currently not being utilized) on the >>>> bacula server >>>> 2) Tell bacula the array is of Media Type "File" (my tape library is >>>> Media Type "Tape"), and put it in the "Disk" pool. >>>> 3) Do a migrate job from my "Weekly" pool to the "Disk" Pool. >>>> 4) Do a migrate job from my "Disk" pool to the "Archive" Pool. >>>> >>>> Does this sound like a reasonable solution until I can spring for >>>> another tape drive?... >>>> >>> Obviously migrating with only one tape drive is not optimal, but what you >>> describe sounds feasible. Be sure to mark the tapes you are taking >>> offsite as Archive. >>> >>> We will be very interested to hear how this double migration works for >>> you ... >>> >>> >>>> Fyi, the array is fast (12 x 15 K FC disks in >>>> RAID 5)... >>>> >>>> Fyi, my setup is: >>>> Dell PE 2650 (1 x 73 GB RAID 1, 1 x 450 GB RAID 0 ) >>>> Bacula 2.0.1 (400 GB of Data-Spooling configured to mitigate tape >>>> shoe-shine, Current Pools=Weekly, Scratch) >>>> RHEL 4 AS >>>> Quantum PX502 (LTO-3, FC, 1-Drive) >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> Alan Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a number of machines which have been switched off in the last 6 >>>>> months and want to save their last complete backup to an archive pool >>>>> in order to both free up the main pool and to ensure there's one last >>>>> copy of everything. >>>>> >>>>> In some cases, there is one last full backup in the system, so all >>>>> that'd be required is a single jobID migration >>>>> >>>>> In other cases, the migrated last full backup would have to be made up >>>>> of full+diff+inc >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have cookiecutter instructions for this? >>>>> >>>>> If so, they should be added to the manual's Migration chapter. >>>>> >>>>> AB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> -- Take Surveys. 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