[Is it true that nobody replied to this in four months?]

On Mon Jul 18 09:34:08 EDT 2011, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

Anyone else notice that /usr/libexec/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl runs a "dbcheck -B" which doesn't seem to exist in the version of dbcheck shipped with it?

That makes it rather hard to do a catalogue backup with the shipped script?

That's an error in the RPM install script. It uses the "alternatives" mechanism for switching between database backends but messes up. /usr/sbin/dbcheck ends up being linked to /usr/sbin/bscan.mysql instead of /usr/sbin/dbcheck.mysql. Consequently, when make_catalog_backup.pl tries to run dbcheck it's actually bscan which gets run. Not understanding the -B option is probably the least of its problems. :-)

Until the RPM gets fixed, you can manually correct the bad symlink with:

ln -sf /etc/alternatives/bacula-dbcheck /usr/sbin/dbcheck

HTH T.