Re: Old Bacula-sd to work with bacula-director 13.0.4

Phil Stracchino <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Organization Fenian House Publishing
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On 6/3/25 10:50, Rob Gerber wrote:
> Bacula-sd and Bacula-dir must be the same version. Always.
> Bacula-fd version can be =< bacula-sd/dir, but never greater.
> 
> Can you upgrade the old SD to 13.0.4? This would enable you to use the 
> old SD with the new director, so restore from the old SD would still be 
> possible. This is probably the easiest way to access data from both old 
> and new SD.
> 
> I believe that you can use multiple SD with a single director, though I 
> have not done this so cannot tell you how to do it.

You can.  It's not difficult to set up.

> Worst case, you can copy the old volumes to the new system, and use some 
> combination of bls/bscan/bextract to restore the data, either adding the 
> old volume data to the catalog using bscan, or simply performing a 
> manual restore using bls/bextract.


What I would do in your place here is copy a test volume from the old SD 
to the new, and see whether you can bscan it in and then perform a test 
restore from it.  If you can do that, then you don't need to set up a 
second SD, as long as you have sufficient space for those volumes.  I 
don't recall offhand how many versions back old volumes are spec'd to 
remain readable.


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