Hi All
I found some articles about moving agents to different repositories, but they seem to rely on making a new base image.
I discovered the following:
- Stop the protection on the agent, by using the Pause button
- Archive all the Recovery Points.
- Delete all the Recovery Points
- If all Recovery Points are deleted, change in Settings the current repository to the desired one.
- Import the archive to the target Repository
- If all Recovery Points are imported, press Resume to continue the protection.
Looks like:
- Agents stay replicated without hassle
- Rolling up recovery points could be an issue while archiving, I had to cancel some tasks.
- No need for a new base image
- No protection while migrating the agent
- Takes a while to migrate though
At first I used to remove the agent (by using Remove Machine) after archiving the agentless (vCenter) machines. But when it was time to migrate the Windows machines with agents, I figured Removing the machine might not be a good idea. So instead I tried removing all recovery points and then change the Repository setting which worked.
Our repository was getting full and I decided to migrate all protected machines which do not need the default retention period. So now I am filling a secondary repository on a different volume with machines that have a shorter retention period.
I added an extra notification on "Archive import on Core has" "failed / finished / started" and "Core backup has" "failed / finished / started" to send a mail to my own mailbox to get triggered to do the next step.
Greetings from the Netherlands.