ebl Document dbcheck -B, dbport and new mysql indexes for

     Path and Filename orphaned elimination speedup

diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/concepts/newfeatures.tex b/docs/manuals/en/concepts/newfeatures.tex
index 501c8718db926ca6eb3132129417b23b246c9dd2..98fb7af5490c2b1a319972ea95081b057b609ffe 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manuals/en/concepts/newfeatures.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/concepts/newfeatures.tex
@@ -1280,6 +1280,28 @@ A new director directive permits to specify the maximum number of Console
 Connections that could run concurrently. The default is set to 20, but you may
 set it to a larger number.
 
+\subsection{dbcheck enhancements}
+If you are using Mysql, dbcheck will now ask you if you want to create
+temporary indexes to speed up orphaned Path and Filename elimination. 
+
+A new \texttt{-B} option allows you to print catalog information in a simple
+text based format. This is useful to backup it in a secure way.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ $ dbcheck -B 
+ catalog=MyCatalog
+ db_type=SQLite
+ db_name=regress
+ db_driver=
+ db_user=regress
+ db_password=
+ db_address=
+ db_port=0
+ db_socket=
+\end{verbatim} %$
+
+You can now specify the database connection port in the command line.
+
 \section{Building Bacula Plugins}
 There is currently one sample program {\bf example-plugin-fd.c} and
 one working plugin {\bf bpipe-fd.c} that can be found in the Bacula

diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/utility/progs.tex b/docs/manuals/en/utility/progs.tex
index 9187970d4974c98214e70e1f2b2d1178634d72a1..f45f4fa88ac016fb59d78916405a4088a1152508 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manuals/en/utility/progs.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/utility/progs.tex
@@ -1049,8 +1049,8 @@ It is called:
 
 \footnotesize
 \begin{verbatim}
-Usage: dbcheck [-c config] [-C catalog name] [-d debug_level]
-<working-directory> <bacula-database> <user> <password> [<dbhost>]
+Usage: dbcheck [-c config ] [-B] [-C catalog name] [-d debug_level] 
+  <working-directory> <bacula-database> <user> <password> [<dbhost>] [<dbport>]
        -b              batch mode
        -C              catalog name in the director conf file
        -c              director conf filename
@@ -1061,6 +1061,23 @@ Usage: dbcheck [-c config] [-C catalog name] [-d debug_level]
 \end{verbatim}
 \normalsize
 
+If the \textbf{-B} option is specified, dbcheck will print out catalog
+information in a simple text based format. This is useful to backup it in a
+secure way.
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ $ dbcheck -B 
+ catalog=MyCatalog
+ db_type=SQLite
+ db_name=regress
+ db_driver=
+ db_user=regress
+ db_password=
+ db_address=
+ db_port=0
+ db_socket=
+\end{verbatim} %$
+
 If the {\bf -c} option is given with the Director's conf file, there is no
 need to enter any of the command line arguments, in particular the working
 directory as dbcheck will read them from the file. 
@@ -1171,6 +1188,10 @@ The inconsistencies examined are the following:
    regardless of their age. 
 \end{itemize}
 
+
+If you are using Mysql, dbcheck will ask you if you want to create temporary
+indexes to speed up orphaned Path and Filename elimination.
+
 By the way, I personally run dbcheck only where I have messed up
 my database due to a bug in developing Bacula code, so normally
 you should never need to run dbcheck in spite of the