Catalog Database Choice

We recommend a PostgreSQL backend to run Bacula Enterprise. Please follow the advised settings you find in the Performance Tuning of Director and Catalog Host to obtain the best performance and security for your catalog.

To change the catalog password, please run these commands:

# su - postgres
$ psql
postgres=# alter user bacula with password'your_new_password';
postgres=# \q

Then you must put the new password in /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-dir.conf as shown below:

Catalog {
  Name = MyCatalog
  DBname = "bacula"
  DBuser = "bacula"
  DBpassword = "your_new_password"
}

Restart bacula-dir service:

systemctl restart bacula-dir

See also

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