It still applies because bacula (and most everything else too nowadays from 
the look of things) uses shared libraries.  If you upgrade the libraries 
you may need to re-compile anything that was built with the old versions if 
you want rock solid reliability.  In my environment I kept getting crashes 
from bacula that would randomly start happening some time after installing 
updated OS and other programs, even though they were through normal OS 
update routines.  Since I took it upon myself to re-compile bacula every 
time I do a big swath of OS updates this has largely gone away.

Note that if you take that approach and don't load your patches frequently 
you'd be advised to get your firewall and other security settings as 
tightly restricted as possible.

Tiny little programs that don't stress the hardware may be a lot less 
susceptible but that's exactly what happens if you've got a big bacula 
installation doing a lot of parallel backups.  YMMV.


> From: Dermot Beirne <dermot.beirne AT dpd DOT ie>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
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> Thanks for the reply John,
> Re your response to my question about the MySQL version, the Bacula manual 
> here:
>
> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html#SECTION004260000000000000000
>
> has a statement about upgrading MySql (at the very end of the article)
> which says:
>
> "Upgrading MySQL
>
> If you upgrade MySQL, you must reconfigure, rebuild, and re-install
> Bacula otherwise you are likely to get bizarre failures. If you
> install from rpms and you upgrade MySQL, you must also rebuild Bacula.
> You can do so by rebuilding from the source rpm. To do so, you may
> need to modify the bacula.spec file to account for the new MySQL
> version."
>
> Do you think this is now obsolete, and perhaps only relevant to older
> versions of Bacula?
>
> Dermot.
>
>> >


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