> I read carefully (or so I thought) thru the main reference document
> ("main.pdf"),

> built everything from source (with no problems), and installed into 
> /opt/bacula
> (doing this on centos 7, fyi).

> I've read the section on critical items to implement, as well as the brief
> tutorial.

> I start things as directed with the command:

> ./bacula start

> and the processes start up as expected.

> the next step says to run the command:

> ./bconsole

> which just comes back to a command prompt.

> after lots of head-scratching, I stumbled across some log information, telling
> me that
> the mysql connection failed. well I can see why it failed - it was never 
> setup.
Hello, Robert. I would suggest you the following quick guides: 

a) Deploy: http://bacula.us/compilation/ 
b) Troubleshooting: http://bacula.us/bacula-troubleshooting/ 

> doing a quick google search, I discovered that there are shell scripts with
> names
> like "create_mysql_database", which I'm assuming I need to run to get things
> setup properly.

> so the reason I'm posting here is, the main document ("main.pdf") makes no
> mention
> about this step. I'm concerned that I'm missing some importing steps, or 
> looking
> at
> the wrong document.

> could someone please point me to some instructions for setting up bacula from
> scratch,
> for someone who's never worked with it before?

> thanks in advance.
> robert meyer

> system: centos 7
> db: mysql
> backup medium: external usb drive

Regards, 
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