On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 11:21:19 GMT Josip Deanovic wrote: > Could send the output of this command: > > mysql -u root -e "show databases; show variables where > variable_name='datadir' or variable_name='socket';" > > > This will output all your databases and in addition, it will > output the datadir and the socket your mysql is using. > This will help us to determine that you are indeed not > using akonadi instance. > > If everything is ok you would just need to enter the correct > database credentials into the bacula-dir.conf and there should > be no problems. > Instead of dbaddress you would just need to specify dbsocket. > If you don't specify dbsocket, bacula will use the default > mysql socket which might nor might not be the correct path > for your mysql instance (depending on the mysql setup). .+--------------------+ .| Database | .+--------------------+ .| bacula | .| information_schema | .| mysql | .| performance_schema | .| test | .+--------------------+ .+---------------+-----------------------+ .| Variable_name | Value | .+---------------+-----------------------+ .| datadir | /var/lib/mysql/ | .| socket | /run/mysql/mysql.sock | .+---------------+-----------------------+
Is dropping user bacula the action that emptied all the Bacula tables of data? I know very little about the behaviour of mysql. Anyway, the tables were still there but empty so I created a new volume and Bacula is now happily backing up to it. It will take some hours yet to finish that. Graham _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
