Hey All,
Thank you, for taking the time to add to the things to take note of when
proceeding with and upgrade like this... It has been quite some time since this
Bacula system was upgraded from 5 to 7, and I for sure needed some refreshers
on what to consider and plan for.. Of course the backup of the backup system
will be part of the game plan 😉
Thanks, Ted
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From: Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:36:26 AM
To: Jonathan Hankins; ted
Cc: Martin Simmons; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading to Bacula 9.0.4
Hello,
Yes, all the existing scripts connect to the DB named "bacula". It is easily
changed, for example, the regression scripts all put everything into the DB
named "regress". Typically you either manually edit the scripts (as I usually
do) and change the db_name bacula to something else. Or you can set the
environment variable db_name, but you must be sure to "export" it.
Best regards,
Kern
On 10/27/2017 08:08 PM, Jonathan Hankins wrote:
FWIW, for anyone wanting to go the route of a side-by-side install of different
versions on different ports / config files, etc.:
Be careful with the DB creation / upgrade / backup scripts, as they will
default to a particular file / db name / db instance. You don't want to blow up
or talk to the wrong DB. I think there's nothing but pain down that road :-)
-Jonathan Hankins
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:19 AM ted
<te...@hotmail.com<mailto:te...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Martin, and Olivier,
Thank you for answering my questions! My first thought was to try an inline
install of 9, changing the directories and port #'s as you had noted. However,
after the input provided by you guys, I think the best path for my upgrade is
the port everything over to Bacula 9.
Thanks, again for providing some direction for this upgrade.
Ted
________________________________
From: Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com<mailto:mar...@lispworks.com>>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 1:27:45 AM
To:
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading to Bacula 9.0.4
>>>>> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:05:00 +0000, ted said:
>
> I have a quick question about a Bacula upgrade to Bacula 9.0.4. I have a
> Bacula director, and a number of storage units at 7.0.4 running on a BSD
> server with postgres for the Bacula database. My question is can Bacula 9 be
> run inline with the Bacula 7 version? Or is the best solution to just
> configure another server for the Bacula 9 installation and port over the
> client configs and databases? Any input to this upgrade path would be
> greatly appreciated.
It is probably better to port everything on that machine to Bacula 9. You can
continue to use Bacula 7 on any other client machines.
OTOH, if you change the port numbers and directories in the configs and use a
separate catalog database then you can run multiple independent versions of
Bacula on the same machine. As Olivier mentioned, you have to be careful
about which versions talk to each other though.
__Martin
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