Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from 5.x to 7.0.5?

Hi Simone,

Thank you for this suggestion. We're going to try your backport repository, although I have some questions concerning our case:

I forgot to mention that we use webacula frontend to give a web access to some users, and it adds some tables to the database. Will the upgrade from your repositories delete those additional tables?

Concerning the upgrade process from 5.0.0 to 7.0.5, should I add both repositories and enable only the bacula one to make the 5.0 to 5.2 upgrade, then enable the bacula7 to make the 5.2 to 7.0 upgrade? Or can I just add the bacula7 repository and do the upgrade without the progressive step from 5.0.x to 5.2.x ?

Regarding the currently installed 5.2, should I uninstall it before installing from the bacula7 repository to avoid any possible library or binary conflict? I agree about doing a fresh install in 7.0.5 with the repository and merge my current config. Would a restore of the previously saved catalog be also necessary?

Regards,

Jose

2014-09-03 14:52 GMT+02:00 Simone Caronni <negativo17 AT gmail DOT com>:

Hello,

On 3 September 2014 13:58, José Vicente Mondejar <jvmondejar AT myferrylink DOT com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm considering upgrading our bacula servers and clients from 5.x to 7.0.5.
Our servers configurations are:
CentOS 5.5 / bacula 5.2.12 (installed from sources) / mysql 5.0.95
CentOS 5.5 / bacula 5.2.13 (installed from sources) / mysql 5.0.77
CentOS 6.3 / bacula 5.0.0 (installed from repo) / mysql 5.5.27

./configure (your options)
make
make install

In general none of your existing .conf or .sql files will be overwritten..."

May I suggest using my backport repository?

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/README.txt
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula7/README.txt

Those are the very same packages that I maintain for Fedora 19/20 and RHEL 7 (5.2.13) and Fedora 21+ (7.0.5). You can upgrade 5.0.0 packages directly (it will keep the catalog database selection automatically) and you can even do the progressive step from 5.0.x to 5.2.x.

The source built installations need simply some adjustments to paths in configuration files. My suggestion is to make a tar/backup of your current Bacula binaries installation, install the packages and then merge your configuration files in. Again there should be very little adjustment to be made.

Among the benefits of using packages, for example; there's common and equal installation across your operating system and files are already labeled amd in proper place for SELinux contexts.

Regards,
--Simone

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