Thanks for that Bruno. I've wiped and
reinstalled my Ubuntu partition. Luckily I had .tar'ed my clean
install. So I'm back to a clean slate. I'm going to get MySQL up and
running and then attempt another Bacula install. As before, are there any recommended step-by-steps? I have read the quickstart guide, and skimmed the rest of the bacula documentation, I think I'm doing it right, however obviously not! Here's how I see the birds eye view of the process: Install MySQL, confirm operation I think thats it? Thanks again, Eric Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 01/31/2010 07:20 AM, Eric Downing wrote:Hi,New to bacula, semi-new to Linux. So I'm having some serious problems getting bacula up and running. I have read the Bacula quick start and skimmed the rest, I'm fairly certain I understand the fundamentals. I followed a guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bacula The first issue is I cannot connect to the console using bconsole. The error cited is: Fatal error: bsock.c:129 Unable to connect to Director daemon on localhost:9101. ERR=Connection refused Whilst looking that one up, I was tailing /var/log/bacula/log and noticed: 31-Jan 01:13 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog "MyCatalog", database "bacula". 31-Jan 01:13 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: mysql.c:194 Unable to connect to MySQL server. Database=bacula User=bacula MySQL connect failed either server not running or your authorization is incorrect. 31-Jan 01:13 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf In MySQL there actually is no bacula database, so I created it and still got the same error. I also checked that the bacula password for MySQL and the password defined in /bacula-dir.conf were synced. Seeing as how these seem to be serious errors, should I wipe and restart? Or do you think these could be fixable? Thanks, EricHi Eric, I've also check the other message in the threads. Understanding what you are doing is the fundamental about having success. So yes bacula documentation is huge, but everything is in ! One of the first few points you should check (and this is ubuntu/debian related) What type of database would you use : sqlite,mysql,postgresql ? Once you choose : the mysql / postgresql needs to be installed and running. Next choose the according bacula-dir package as each database is specifically linked to. so there's one bacula-dir for sqlite, one for mysql one for postgresql, and they can't be mixed. At your place, I would remove by purge all bacula related package, make my decision and re-start install. (If it doesn't work out of the box, complain about the packager) And yes in ubuntu/debian world they tend to understand "network backup service" to localhost. So you have to change all 127.0.0.1 or localhost in all config files -dir -fd -sd if you want to backup something on your network. Hope this help you to get a good start |
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