Re: [Bacula-users] How to upgrade to 9.0.6 from 7.4.7

[Erik P. O. <ep...@gm...>]

On 2018-01-27 at 23:49:38 Charles Senior wrote:

> Hi Erik,
> 
> I was in the same position running bacula on fedora using mysql.
> 
> The issues I had were concerning :
> 
> 1) Mariadb required a database upgrade := Just follow the instructions
> 
> 2) Bacula upgrade requires a database layout change :-
> 
>      Ran the mysql upgrade routine in /usr/bacula/libexec
> 
>      Still had problems (the upgrade routine removed the "default is 
> Null" on various date/time fields but then couldn't create records 'cos 
> there was no default specified. Resolved by exporting the d/base as per 
> the backup catalog; deleting and recreating the tables via the routines 
> in /usr/libexec/bacula and then importing the data.
> 
> Now these issues might have been resolved since I upgraded but if not 
> this is how I got over them.

Thank you. I plan to do the upgrade next Saturday and it's good to be prepared
for such issue.
 
-- 
Erik

> 
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
> On 27/01/18 14:23, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > I am running fedora 26 with bacula-7.4.7 and if I upgrade to fedora 27
> > bacula will be upgraded to 9.0.6. I understand that the database structure
> > is changed so that I need to run an upgrade script to the old database. Is
> > there anything else that needs to be changed? For example to the
> > various .conf files?
> >
> > I am asking because I want to do the upgrade with as few changes as
> > possible. Any refinements and use of new features could then be introduced
> > at a later stage.
> >  
>