This may be a Linux (openSuSE) distro error, but not knowing the internals of how Bacula gets configured, I thought I would ask my question here first.
I get Bacula from the openSuSE (12.3) repositories, and as such I do not have to compile/install Bacula from source, theoretically. The repository contains what are called meta packages for Bacula, which select from a set of other Bacula packages that have been pre-configured for whatever database type one wishes to use. I chose the one for usage with MySQL. The installation with fine, I set up MySQL with out any problem, and everything checked out OK. However, when I started up the Bacula daemons, and it tried to do it's first backup, I encountered an error when it tried to create a backup of the catalog itself and got an error message reporting that there was no such file or directory called pg_dump. I tracked this error to the shell script file - make_catalog_backup - where I discovered that pg_dump is a file that is to be used when using PostgreSQL. I also learned that this script expects the name of the database type to be passed in as the 5th parameter, and if it does not recognize the database type, it was defaulting to using PostgreSQL. I hacked this script and changed the default database type to mysql and that worked! Note: the backups of various other computers on my network is proceeding fine also, so I believe I have installed Bacula correctly. So for my questions - 1. Shouldn't the default databases type in this script have been set to mysql when the openSuSE developers set up Bacula for distribution? I presume they built it with the .configure parameter set to mysql for the MySQL meta package that I installed. 2. My second question is a bit more nuanced. OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed to be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim). I do not know where or how the make_catalog_backup script is called from, so I don't know what got passed in as the 5th parameter specifying the database type, (I could investigate further if necessary) but I wonder if this changeover to using MariaDB instead of MySQL might have confused things? 3. Is this a bug that should be reported to the Bacula developers, or to the OpenSuSE distro/packaging team? Thanks in advance for any info/advice offered.... Marc.. -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
