>>>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:00:42 -0700, Jan Martin said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using bacula to back up my local linux machine (Mint 11) and
> a Mac laptop for a couple of years now, and I would like to update my
> linux OS to a new version.  To get a good, stable system, I have always
> done a pretty clean install (basically only saved /home partition, and
> installed a new set of system software in the / partition).  I'd like to
> continue to use bacula after my new OS install, which will overwrite all
> the bacula system files (not the backup files, of course - they are on a
> separate drive, USB mounted).
> 
> I know I need to save the /etc/bacula configuration files, but what else
> do I need to save?  I am using SQlite3 for the catalog.  I expect that I
> will need to save that by dumping it to a file, like the catalog backup
> script does.  Is there anything else I need to save, to save the state
> of bacula and just continue on after I've loaded the new OS?
> 
> I looked around, but couldn't find a how-to on this, so many thanks for
> any help.

That should be everything you need.  The only other thing might be the bacula
startup scripts, unless they are part of the installer for bacula.

__Martin

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