On Tuesday 17 May 2011, Alan Langley elucidated thus: > UNCLASSIFIED > Hello, > > I'm getting the following error when attempting to start the > bacula-director on ubuntu. > > 17-May 14:05 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for > database "bacula". Wanted 10, got 12 17-May 14:05 bacula-dir JobId 0: > Fatal error: Could not open Catalog "MyCatalog", database "bacula".
This is the important error. Apparently the director cannot connect to the database at all. > 17-May 14:05 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Version error for > database "bacula". Wanted 10, got 12 17-May 14:05 bacula-dir ERROR > TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: > /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf This appears to be a result of bacula trying to check, even though it can't connect. > We are running Bacula version 5.0.3 > > And > > I ran a mysql script to update the database files which seemed to > work OK without errors > > This script will update a Bacula MySQL database from version 11 to 12 > which is needed to convert from Bacula Enterprise 2.6 to 4.0 or > Standard version 3.0 to 5.0 > > Can you tell which mysql version I should be running with this > version of bacula and more on what the error is trying to tell me. I would think any recent MySQL would work, but the error above refers to the version of the Bacula database (its internal structure) not to the version of the database server. j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users