Dear Andrea, thanks for your help.
In message <50deb974.1070...@alyf.net> you wrote: > > Hm... with "--compatible=postgresql" the backtics get changed into '"' > > characters, but the errors essentially remain the same: > > > > ERROR: syntax error at or near ""BaseFiles"" > > LINE 1: LOCK TABLES "BaseFiles" WRITE; > > ^ > > ERROR: syntax error at or near "UNLOCK" > > LINE 1: UNLOCK TABLES; > > Postgres has a different syntax for the LOCK command, and has no UNLOCK. > You can safely remove LOCK/UNLOCK commands as they're not needed in this > scenario. It appears there are more differences... > > ERROR: relation "Client" does not exist > > LINE 1: INSERT INTO "Client" VALUES (1,'diddl-fd','5.2.12 (12Sep12) ... > > You must create the tables before inserting data. You can either tell > mysqldump to also dump the db schema (but you will have to review the > CREATE TABLE statements as there are differences in type names) or > create the schema using the postgres SQL script which comes with bacula. I did create the tables before - I followed the instructions and ran the commands ./drop_bacula_tables ./make_bacula_tables ./grant_bacula_privileges before attempting the DB import. > Depending on your setup, you could also consider creating an empty > database and bscanning all existing volumes into it. This is not really an option for me. I have >700 tapes (including a large number of old, slow SLR100 and DDS-3 tapes) in 2 databases. Scanning these tapes would take ages and cause a significant amount of manual interaction. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." - Henry Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users