On Wednesday 18 April 2007 19:12, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> John> Is this possible?
>
> Yup, it's possible. I have it setup just this way on my home
> network. Unfortunately, it's not supported right out of the box.
>
> John> There is a dedicated MySQL server on the LAN which isn't the
> John> same as the one which will run bacula (with the tape in). I
> John> built and ran it fine on my home server and noticed it pulling
> John> in the MySQL headers etc, but that server hosted everything
> John> (RH6). Now I'm getting familiar with bacula I want to do the
> John> same in the office, which has the setup I described. Thanks.
>
> You need to make some tweaks to a couple of scripts and configuration
> settings, so that you use the mysql '-h <hostname>' option.
>
> Let's see, I hacked the /etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup to
> take a fourth parameter, which is the hostname of the system to
> contact for mysql backups.
>
> In the Catalog { ... } definition in the bacula-dir.conf I had to add
> the line "DB Address = <hostname>"
>
> I think that was it really.
>
> John
If you're going to use MySQL over internet, I guess you'd want to encrypt your
traffic, so there's some MySQL TLS configuration to do also. Once I thought
about doing it, but it seemed that is was not as trivial as I tought.
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