Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

[Radosław K. <rad...@ko...>]

Hello,

2014-02-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone <mar...@a1...>:

>  Greetings,
>
> I have this Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server running bacula 5.0 over PostgreSQL
> 8.4. This server has already been upgraded from an old 3.x install, have
> gone trough a mysql->postgresql migration, and now is time to move ahead
> again. :) It may be running for almost a decade now!
>
> I'd like to describe planned steps and have tips, considerations and
> advices for this process. I'm mainly worried about:
>
>    - Database upgrade from version 12 -> 14;
>    - Bacula director config changes.
>
> I have the daily bacula.sql from the catalog backup job ("select VersionId
> from Version" gives 12) and a new 12.04 LTS server with bacula 5.2 and
> PostgreSQL 9.1 on its repos. In short detail, the planned steps are:
>
>    1. Install PostgreSQL server
>    2. Fix some utf-8 invalid chars: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -o
>    /tmp/bacula_new.sql /tmp/bacula.sql
>
> Why do you need this?

Bacula (AFAIK) does not use UTF-8 as a database character coding.

best regards
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Radosław Korzeniewski
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