From e9ba35ec6aa7d544689e82978ad2823461bf0d1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joerg Steffens Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:04:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Parallel Bacula installations not possible. Added a note about that Bacula and Bareos can not be installed in parallel (at least not when using the prebuild Linux packages). --- manuals/en/main/backward-compability.tex | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/manuals/en/main/backward-compability.tex b/manuals/en/main/backward-compability.tex index ac11786..a51766b 100644 --- a/manuals/en/main/backward-compability.tex +++ b/manuals/en/main/backward-compability.tex @@ -87,22 +87,31 @@ \section{Compatibility between Bareos and Bacula} \hline \baculacolor & \baculacolor & \baculacolor & \\ \hline - \baculacolor & \baculacolor & \bareoscolor (compatibe mode) & \\ + \baculacolor & \baculacolor & \bareoscolor (compatibility mode) & \\ \hline \end{tabular} -Other combinations like Bacula director (dir) with Bareos storage daemon (sd) will not work. However this wasn't even possible with different versions of bacula-dir and bacula-sd. +Other combinations like Bacula Director with \bareosSd will not work. +However this wasn't even possible with different versions of bacula-dir and bacula-sd. \subsection{Upgrade from Bacula 5.2 to Bareos} \index[general]{Upgrade from Bacula to Bareos} \index[general]{Bareos!Upgrading} \label{upgrade-from-bacula-to-bareos} -Upgrade is supported from Bacula version 5.2.x. If you are running any older version of Bacula, please update to 5.2 first (see Bacula documentation). \textbf{Note:} Updating from the latest Bacula 7.0 to Bareos has not been tested. +Upgrade is supported from Bacula version 5.2.x. If you are running any older version of Bacula, please update to 5.2 first (see Bacula documentation). + +\warning{Updating from Bacula $\geq$ 7.0 to Bareos has not been tested.} + +\warning{As Bareos and Bacula packages bring binaries with identical paths and names, +it is on most platforms not possible to install components from both in parallel. +Your package management tool will warn you about this.} + + \subsubsection{Rename user and group before upgrading} -To have bareos running without any permission hazzle, it is recommended to rename the user and group \user{bacula} to the user and group \user{bareos} before upgrading. That way, we minimize the effort for the user to recheck all config files and the rights on every script/directory etc. involved in the existing setup. +To have bareos running without any permission hassle, it is recommended to rename the user and group \user{bacula} to the user and group \user{bareos} before upgrading. That way, we minimize the effort for the user to recheck all config files and the rights on every script/directory etc. involved in the existing setup. The required commands should look something like this: