[Box Backup] bbackupquery and german umlauts

[Ben Summers]

  Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>
> Clint Adams <schizo at debian.org> writes:
>
>> Please switch your package to db4.6 so we can get rid of db4.3.
>
> I have a few questions about this query:
>
> Boxbackup is currently built against db4.3. Is changing the
> build-depends all I need to do?
>
> What about old backup stores, which have been created with db4.3? Do
> they need to be converted to the new db4.6?

No. BDB is only used on the client for storing a small amount of data  
used to optimise the backup process. It can be discarded without issues.

>
> What do I need to look after for such an upgrade?

Delete the contents of the client backup data directory, specified  
with the DataDirectory directive in bbackupd.conf.


> I assume I need to
> make sure that no boxbackup-server instances are using the db.

No measures need be taken on the server side.

Ben