>>>>> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:27:56 -0700, Murray Davis said:
>
> When logged on as root, I can run the following script to backup my MySQL
> databases to a local folder:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> BACKUPLOCATION=/var/local/mysqlbackups
> LOGFILE=/usr/local/sbin/backupdbs.log
> GZIP="$(which gzip)"
> NOW=$(date +"%d-%m-%Y")
> RETENTION=30
> #remove .gz files greater than 30 days old
> find /var/local/mysqlbackups -mtime +$RETENTION -exec rm -fr {} \; &>
> /dev/null
> # back up all the mysql databases, into individual files so we can later
> restore
> # them separately if needed.
> mysql --defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf -B -N -e "show databases" | while
> read db
> do
> BACKUPFILE=$BACKUPLOCATION/mysql-${db}.${NOW}-$(date +"%T").gz
> echo "Backing up $db into $BACKUPFILE"
> /usr/bin/mysqldump --defaults-extra-file=/root/.my.cnf
> --single-transaction $db | $GZIP -9 > $BACKUPFILE
> done >>$LOGFILE
>
> However, when I run the backup from bacula, I get the following error
> message...
>
> *The backup job is now running. When complete, the results will be shown
> below ..*
>
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: shell command: run BeforeJob
> "/usr/local/sbin/backupdbs"
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: BeforeJob: Could not open required
> defaults file: /root/.my.cnf
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: BeforeJob: Fatal error in defaults
> handling. Program aborted
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: BeforeJob: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access
> denied for user 'bacula'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: Start Backup JobId 27,
> Job=BackupClient1.2012-04-05_16.18.54_33
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: Using Device "FileStorage"
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-sd JobId 27: Volume "Inc-0002" previously written,
> moving to end of data.
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-sd JobId 27: Ready to append to end of Volume
> "Inc-0002" size=67985900
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-fd JobId 27: Could not stat "/usr/sbin/local":
> ERR=No such file or directory
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-sd JobId 27: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:01,
> Transfer rate = 0 Bytes/second
> 05-Apr 16:18 cablemon-dir JobId 27: Bacula cablemon-dir 5.0.1 (24Feb10):
> 05-Apr-2012 16:18:57
>
>
> The backup finishes ok, just not the script component. I first gave
> read access to /root/.my.cnf for the account "bacula", but I still got
> the error. I even set the permissions as 777 for .my.cnf and still I
> got the above error. I am using the .my.cnf file to hide the mysql
> username and password.
Sounds like the permissions on /root make it impossible to see the .my.cnf
file. Put the file somewhere else where the bacula account can see it.
__Martin
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