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Migrating some Bacula jobs

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I noticed that one of our disk-based Volumes used a label name similar to that of our tape-based Volumes. To avoid confusion, I will rename that Volume. But, renaming a Volume is not simple, nor recommended if the Volume contains data. It is better to migrate the data instead.
The Volume in question […]

Bacula - moving File storage

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I noticed today that the Bacula installation was still using the default File Storage location of /tmp. That is adequate for testing, but we should move it elsewhere. The safest approach to making this change is:

stop bacula-sd
copy the files to the new location
rename the old location
amend bacula-sd.conf
restart bacula-sd
test

After you have confirmed everything is […]