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-      Bacula Regression
-        Kern Sibbald
-        December 2003
+             Bacula Regression
+               Kern Sibbald
+
+This is Bacula's regression script directory.
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Warning!!!! Make sure not to run it on the same system 
+with your production Catalog because the tables will all
+be cleared. You can run it on the your production system
+if you use a different database.
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
-This is Bacula's regression script directory.  At this time
-(December 2003), it is still in development, so all the tests are
-not complete.
 
 To set it up, create your personal configuration file, by
 copying prototype.conf to xxx.conf or simply editing prototype.conf
@@ -17,6 +22,12 @@ email address!
 
 Make sure that depkgs is pre-built if it isn't 
 already: (cd your-depkgs; make sqlite).
+Using the .conf file, you can now select between any Catalog type:
+SQLite, SQLite3, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.  Be aware, however, if you
+use an installed database on a production server, running these
+tests will delete all the tables !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I run my
+tests on a non-production machine, and in addition, I normally use
+SQLite as the database, while my production uses MySQL.
 
 Then do:
 
@@ -35,21 +46,21 @@ a resonable run.  Each test is totally independent of any other
 test. Aside from the required "make setup", each test is totally
 self-initalizing and should clean up after itself.
 
-Not all the tests yet report OK.  This is simply because there are
-some spurious differences that I haven't yet taken the time to
-eliminate.  The working scrips as of 24 Apr 03 are:
-
-backup-bacula-test
-sparse-test
-compressed-test
-sparse-compressed-test
-two-jobs-test
-wierd-files-test
-verify-vol-test
-
 The tests expect you to execute them from the main regress 
 directory!               
 
+You can run all the disk based tests by doing:
+
+  ./do_file
+
+You can run all the disk and most of the tape tests by doing:
+
+  ./do_all
+
+Each of the above calls one or more scripts. By looking at the
+scripts available in this directory, you can see that there are a number
+of options for running tests.
+
 You can run them individually as:
 
    tests/two-jobs-test
@@ -82,4 +93,15 @@ configuration file.
 To avoid re-doing a make setup if you have made a change to the
 conf files, and you do not need a new copy of the source, you can simply do:
 
-   scripts/do-sed <your-email-address>
+   make sed
+
+Debugging failed tests:
+The simplest thing to do is to edit tests/xxxx where xxxx is the name of
+the test, and change the line "debug=0" to "debug=1".  If the test has
+not been updated to have the debug variable, please notify Kern, and I
+will be happy to fix it -- I am upgrading them one at a time.
+
+Also, if you run from time to time on a computer that is not connected
+to the network, please be sure that "hostname" is set to "localhost",
+otherwise, your tests may fail because the hostname used by Bacula's
+./configure cannot be properly resolved.