[Bacula-users] Bacula beta 1.37.17 released

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

Hello,

I've released the source tar file of Bacula beta version 1.37.17 to Source 
Forge. This version has much better Python support, and a few other 
improvements, but most importantly, there was a bug introduced during 
implementation of 64 bit DBIds that caused File pruning to never prune. This 
means that your database would continuously grow until the Job pruning stops 
it.  This is not really too serious, but does waste disk space.

I urge anyone who is using Bacula 1.37.16 from Source Forge or who is running 
from CVS code to upgrade to version 1.37.17 or to the latest CVS.  Once this 
version is running, it will prune any old accumulated records, however, 
depending on which SQL server you are using, it may or may not actually 
shrink the database.  To shrink it, you should export it to an ASCII file, 
make a copy of the binary file, then re-import the ASCII file. When you are 
sure it is OK, you can delete the old copy of the binary file.

Sorry for any inconvenience ...

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Best regards,

Kern

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