[Bacula-users] Rough start with Bacula on Ubuntu
Gentlebeings I have a small server running Ubuntu Lucid, on which I have installed Webmin 1.550 and Bacula 5.0.1 and MySQL (applications installed using apt-get). I am backing up to a file share on another machine, and the set up basically works. I still need to fine tune a few things, but I can backup, etc. However, getting to this point was a bit ugly, because the Bacula documentation does not entirely agree with the software that I have installed. For example, I cannot find drop_bacula_tables or make_bacula_tables scripts, and a bit of Googling suggests that those scripts don't get installed on Ubuntu, for no apparent reason. Furthermore, the Start and Stop Bacula buttons in Webmin appear to start/stop the bacula-dir process, but not the fd or sd processes. I can start and stop everything on the command line, but I'm going to have to hand this system over to semi-technical people shortly, and they may not cope with the Linux command line (which is why I used Webmin in the first place). Obviously the start/stop thing is a Webmin issue, but I am hoping that someone on this list will already have fought this particular battle, and can tell me how they did it. I have considered upgrading Bacula to 5.0.3, but I don't want to find that I am opening a new can of worms by doing so. Does anyone have any guidance on the Bacula upgrade experience on Lucid? I would like to upgrade the machine itself, but I need a decent backup before I can attempt that. So: Ubuntu Lucid. Is there anyway to get the missing database scripts, any simple fix to starting and stopping Bacula via Webmin, and will I have a better experience with Bacula 5.0.3? Thanks and regards Melodie -- Melodie Neal, CISSP, JP melodie.n...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/melodieneal -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rough start with Bacula on Ubuntu
the scripts are contained into the bacula-director-mysql package at least on debian squeeze, ubuntu I think uses the same debian basis for this kind of packages, for this reason I suggest to use debian instead of ubuntu at least on server side. good luck Mauro -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rough start with Bacula on Ubuntu
On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:48:16 +1000 Melodie Neal melodie.n...@gmail.com wrote: I have a small server running Ubuntu Lucid, on which I have installed Webmin 1.550 and Bacula 5.0.1 and MySQL (applications installed using apt-get). I am backing up to a file share on another machine, and the set up basically works. I still need to fine tune a few things, but I can backup, etc. However, getting to this point was a bit ugly, because the Bacula documentation does not entirely agree with the software that I have installed. For example, I cannot find drop_bacula_tables or make_bacula_tables scripts, and a bit of Googling suggests that those scripts don't get installed on Ubuntu, for no apparent reason. The reason is this: Debian, which Ubuntu most probably borrows these packages from, has a distro-specific framework to carry out database reconfigurations in a centralized manner, so that you have uniform experience when it comes to database management no matter which software you're dealing with and which database backend you have decided to use for it. This does also apply to package upgrades which often require upgrading database schemas. So, back to the question: to recreate the database just run # dpkg-reconfigure -plow bacula-director-mysql and follow the questions it asks. You can also drop the database by hand using something like # echo 'drop database bacula' \ | mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf Then you'll be able to create it by reconfiguring the bacula-director-mysql package as described above. [...] Unfortunately, I've no idea regarding your problem with Webmin. Probably you would be better off contacting Webmin team as I see there's no Webmin officially packaged for Debian (and no package in Ubuntu archives as well) so hence it's, strictly speaking, not a bug. -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rough start with Bacula on Ubuntu
On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:24:39 +0200 Mauro Colorio mauro.colo...@gmail.com wrote: the scripts are contained into the bacula-director-mysql package at least on debian squeeze, ubuntu I think uses the same debian basis for this kind of packages, for this reason I suggest to use debian instead of ubuntu at least on server side. I second this unless the OP's company bought official support from the company backing Ubuntu. Otherwise I can hardly appreciate the reason for using a deskop-oriented mod of Debian and have essentially no direct maintenance for important packages. -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rough start with Bacula on Ubuntu
On 5/26/2011 2:48 AM, Melodie Neal wrote: Gentlebeings I have a small server running Ubuntu Lucid, on which I have installed Webmin 1.550 and Bacula 5.0.1 and MySQL (applications installed using apt-get). I am backing up to a file share on another machine, and the set up basically works. I still need to fine tune a few things, but I can backup, etc. However, getting to this point was a bit ugly, because the Bacula documentation does not entirely agree with the software that I have installed. For example, I cannot find drop_bacula_tables or make_bacula_tables scripts, and a bit of Googling suggests that those scripts don't get installed on Ubuntu, for no apparent reason. Furthermore, the Start and Stop Bacula buttons in Webmin appear to start/stop the bacula-dir process, but not the fd or sd processes. I can start and stop everything on the command line, but I'm going to have to hand this system over to semi-technical people shortly, and they may not cope with the Linux command line (which is why I used Webmin in the first place). Obviously the start/stop thing is a Webmin issue, but I am hoping that someone on this list will already have fought this particular battle, and can tell me how they did it. I have considered upgrading Bacula to 5.0.3, but I don't want to find that I am opening a new can of worms by doing so. Does anyone have any guidance on the Bacula upgrade experience on Lucid? I would like to upgrade the machine itself, but I need a decent backup before I can attempt that. So: Ubuntu Lucid. Is there anyway to get the missing database scripts, any simple fix to starting and stopping Bacula via Webmin, and will I have a better experience with Bacula 5.0.3? Thanks and regards Melodie -- Melodie Neal, CISSP, JP melodie.n...@gmail.com mailto:melodie.n...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/melodieneal -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Hi Melodie, I have always built Bacula from source on Ubuntu for this reason. Below is the script I use configure the build. I do not use Webmin, you may have to modify this to build that. I have always found building the current version, easier then using the ubuntu repo versions. #!/bin/bash # run ./my-conf (this script) # run make # run make install # need libmysqlclient15-dev # need libqt4-dev basedir=/opt/bacula-5.0.3 workindir=$basedir/working make distclean CFLAGS=-g -O2 \ ./configure \ --sbindir=$basedir/bin \ --sysconfdir=$basedir/etc \ --mandir=$basedir/bin \ --with-pid-dir=$workingdir \ --with-subsys-dir=$workingdir \ --with-working-dir=$workindir \ --with-scriptdir=$basedir/bin \ --with-qwt=../src/qt-console/qwt \ --enable-smartalloc \ --enable-batch-insert \ --enable-large-file \ --disable-ipv6 \ --with-open-ssl \ --with-mysql exit 0 -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
