September 2009

Migrating some Bacula jobs

Leave a Comment / Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / September 2, 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 has MediaId […]

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Bacula – moving File storage

Leave a Comment / Backups, Bacula, Open Source / By Dan Langille / September 2, 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

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