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Bacula Catalog Database Guide

It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.

Kern Sibbald

July 19, 2009
This manual documents Bacula version 3.0.2 (18 July 2009)
Copyright ©1999-2009, Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

- Contents
- Catalog Maintenance
  - Setting Retention Periods
  - Compacting Your MySQL Database
  - Repairing Your MySQL Database
  - MySQL Table is Full
  - MySQL Server Has Gone Away
  - Repairing Your PostgreSQL Database
  - Database Performance Issues
  - Performance Issues Indexes
    - PostgreSQL Indexes
    - MySQL Indexes
    - SQLite Indexes
  - Compacting Your PostgreSQL Database
  - Compacting Your SQLite Database
  - Migrating from SQLite to MySQL or PostgreSQL
  - Backing Up Your Bacula Database
  - Security considerations
  - Backing Up Third Party Databases
  - Database Size
- Installing and Configuring MySQL
  - Installing and Configuring MySQL -- Phase I
  - Installing and Configuring MySQL -- Phase II
  - Re-initializing the Catalog Database
  - Linking Bacula with MySQL
  - Installing MySQL from RPMs
  - Upgrading MySQL
- Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL
  - Installing PostgreSQL
  - Configuring PostgreSQL
  - Re-initializing the Catalog Database
  - Installing PostgreSQL from RPMs
  - Converting from MySQL to PostgreSQL
  - Upgrading PostgreSQL
  - Tuning PostgreSQL
  - Credits
- Installing and Configuring SQLite
  - Installing and Configuring SQLite -- Phase I
  - Installing and Configuring SQLite -- Phase II
  - Linking Bacula with SQLite
  - Testing SQLite
  - Re-initializing the Catalog Database
- The internal database is not supported, please do not use it.
  - Internal Bacula Database
- GNU Free Documentation License
- General Index
- About this document ...