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migration: Split and clarify item on Job table.
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It was already a bit long and did not mention the newly created
job record, and that restoring from the old media is still possible
after migration.

This commit moves the part that describes the two job records to a
separate item and explains how to restore the original job.
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Andre Noll authored and joergsteffens committed Dec 9, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -94,9 +94,17 @@ \section{Important Migration Considerations}
The column RealEndTime in the catalog Job table will contain the
time and date that the Migration terminated, and by comparing
it with the EndTime column you can tell whether or not the
job was migrated. The original job is purged of its File
records, and its Type field is changed from "B" to "M" to
indicate that the job was migrated.
job was migrated.

\item After a Job has been migrated, the File records are purged from
the original Job. Moreover, the Type of the original Job is
changed from "B" (backup) to "M" (migrated), and another Type
"B" job record is added which refers to the new location of the
data. Since the original Job record stays in the bareos catalog,
it is still possible to restore from the old media by specifying
the original JobId for the restore. However, no file selection is
possible in this case, so one can only restore {\bf all} files
this way.

\item A Job will be migrated only if all Volumes on which the job
is stored are marked Full, Used, or Error. In particular, Volumes
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