-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Bennett wrote: > I am new to Bacula (moving from Yosemite which was acquired by another > company > in the middle of an local issue I was trying to resolve) and have just > yesterday got my recent installation of Bacula 2.4.4 working with PostgreSQL > 8.4. I look today and there is already a major and bug fix release. I only > have one full and one incremental backup of the backup server and these are > the only two backups I have. So, rather than go through the upgrade process > shouldn't I just drop the database and uninstall the old Bacula rather than > go through the recommended upgrade process. I have the /etc/bacula directory > copied to an external drive so I won't lose my configurations.
You could do that, but you'd have to recreate the volume etc. The upgrade process isn't very complicated. You just need to compile/install the new version and run the update_bacula_tables script to have it upgrade your database structure. Greetings, Michel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkoH2m0ACgkQ2Vs+MkscAyUNegCg29gdUGI1cYdEJQsXfjF7OuIN HmoAoOZLPGgSMslMZg+CLtiUFusllwcM =4iK3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users