Um 16:40 Uhr am 26.05.18 schrieb Dan Langille:
>> On May 23, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This will seem a dumb question to the experienced Bacula user. I would
>> prefer to use mysql rather than the default sqlite. During installation
>> (Debian Stretch repo, Bacula v7.4.4) I said no to configuring sqlite
>> expecting to be offered the opportunity to configure mysql instead.
>> That didn't happen. I have created an empty bacula database with the
>> appropriate user/permissions but can't figure out how to make Bacula
>> populate it or connect.
> That sounds like a Debian packaging problem.
Full disclosure: I am part of the Debian team packaging Bacula, so my
opinion is biased.
I don't think this is a problem with the packages per se.
If you install the correct meta packages for the MySQL variant of Bacula
it will install the needed database and tables in it.
But if you opt out of configuring a database and then later change the
database backend, the system does nothing, as per your selection.
This is clearly stated as caveat on the README.Debian file present:
,----
| CHANGING DATABASE BACKEND
| =========================
|
| This is NOT RECOMMENDED and NOT SUPPORTED FOR LIVE DATA.
|
| Your current database IS NOT transferred to the new database
| backend. The new database backend will have an EMPTY database. Your
| /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf file WILL NOT be automatically adapted to
| function with the new database backend, YOU need to do the necessary
| changes to the Catalog{} section YOURSELF.
|
| If you want to go ahead anyway, you change the database backend by
| installing a different bacula-director-DBTYPE package. This will pull
| in the needed dependencies for the new database backend and remove the
| ones from the old one.
`----
One nitpick one might have about the Debian Stretch meta-packages of
Bacula 7.4.4 is its default database dependency being SQLite3.
This has since been rectified in the Buster and Stretch-Backports packages
which select PostgreSQL as default database if you install the
bacula-server meta-package.
Grüße,
Sven.
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