RFC: Backup upgrade

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 14:37, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:28 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >> Currently we are using Bacula 2.4.4 for our backups. With the upcoming
> >> upgrades to RHEL-6 the main backup software will be bacula-5.0.0. I
> >> have 'gleaned' that the upgrade from 2.x to 5.x is not simple which
> >> means we are going to need to do a project on how this will be done.
> >>
> >> I am looking for people who have done project management in the past
> >> to help out on this.. mainly it would be to help step through people
> >> who may not have large scale project experience on what things usually
> >> need to be done: scoping, staffing, dropback points, documentation,
> >> etc.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Are there forward/backward compat issues with clients?
> >
> > ie if we're still on bacula 2.X on the master can be backup a bacula 5.X
> > client?
>
> As far I can tell nothing between 2.x is compatible with 5.x .. just
> too much has gone on between the two releases. So part of the project
> is going to be:
>
> 1) How much history do we need? How do we keep it?
> 2) Do we need new hardware? How much will that be?
>

FWIW, there is a version of bacula2 compiled for RHEL6 so we can at least
do this transition as we need to.  fas1 requires backups because of the
cert system and it gets them via bacula2-common-2.4.4

	-Mike