-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/9/2007 3:52 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I have a question that I can't seem to answer from the manual. > > I have set up two catalogs (or so I thought) since the beginning. I > haven't really noticed the difference until now when 2.0.1 is asking me > which catalog all the time. That's fine, however I discovered that it > didn't matter which one I chose. > >> :-) > > Looking further, I see that I was > supposed to have a different database name for each. > >> So I assume that all your data is actually in one database, right?
That is correct -- and the fact that the catalog setting seemed to make no difference somewhat verifies this. > I personally think > that the director should have barfed at this, or that there should be no > "DB name" parameter, instead using the Catalog's name itself or > something like that. > >> I disagree. > >> The usual setup in Bacula is to collect all information for one object >> and assign a name to it. The object name does not have to correspond to >> any of its other settings, and I'd prefer to keep it like this. > >> Think of storage devices, for example: Fom the directors point of view, >> they have an address, a port and a name to uniquely define one. The name >> assigned to that storage device does not have to corrspond to the SD >> device name, or the SD's address. > >> That said, you'd have to check all of the information to find duplicates >> - you can have databases with identical names on different servers, you >> can have databases on the same server, using different ports, etc. Fair enough. I didn't really think that one out so well. I figured, however, that one would only need one database and that the catalogs were all stored in this database. If one indeed must generate multiple databases to have multiple catalogs, this should be mentioned somewhere a bit more clearly. I'll take a look at the docs and see. > That aside, I'm preparing to just set the thing to use one catalog, > since when I decided to use more than one I didn't really know why I > would or would not want that. My only concern: is the catalog name > written anywhere in the DB that will cause me grief, or will removing > the other catalog and setting everything to use one completely cure my > problem? > >> You shouldn't encounter any problems. The catalog name itself is not >> stored in the catalog metadata. And, naturally, you have a backup ;-) OK, thanks for the confirmation! - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFzOTQmb+gadEcsb4RAmjhAKCSnJL5W4VY1qqro/vnjb3RLLd+/ACfe/e6 vrUG0ZwGjhH8McMq1eAyhDU= =q1YT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
