Ooops, as often stated I missed some infos:

Bacula 2.4.2 on Linux 2.6, 32bit
Mysql 5

Cheers,
 Michael

Am 05.03.2009 10:49 Michael Scherer schrieb:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> Last friday when ran into a problem with the FileId attribute of the File
> table. Using Bacula for some years now the FileId reached its maximum of
> 4294967295 and Bacula wasnt able to backup any more files.
> 
> I found a recent post concerning such an issue. The solution was to alter the
> File table and change the FileId to BigInt(12).
> After doing this backups are working again as expected but I'm a bit concerned
> about the internal handling of the FileId field.
> 
> Are the Bacula daemons able to handle bigger numbers or may we run into loss
> of data with that solution?
> Is there any other solution than that to solve that problem?
> 
> Restarting with a blank catalog is only an option if we somehow can restore
> data from jobs stored in the old catalog.
> 
> Is it possible to simply configure two catalogs in the bacula-dir.conf and
> reference just one to the client(s)? Is the bacula-dir able to find data in
> the second (old + full) catalog?
> What about duplicate JobIds?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Greetings,
>  Michael
> 
> PS: The Bacula-Website still looks pretty good. ;^)
> 
> 

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