Hello :-) The 5.0.1 Release Notes strongly recommends installing into a single directory, preferably /opt/bacula and invites questions in this mailing list (full text below sig).
Presumably the Bacula project has encountered problems with installing to the prevalent /usr/(local/)bin, /usr/share/* et cetera directories, maybe for reasons given in the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy (LFH) documentation (http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/foreward.html and http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/opt.html). But the single directory recommendation is contrary to LFH. Does the project specifically recommend against following LFH by installing to: /opt/bacula (executables) /etc/opt/bacula (configuration files) /var/opt/bacula (data) Ironically one of the LFH rationales is to ease backup: executables change rarely so do not need to be backed up as frequently as data. Best Charles ==== APPENDIX: 5.0.1 Release Notes excerpt ==== 5. The Bacula project strongly recommends that you install Bacula into a single directory, with a few minor exceptions such as the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. Preferrably this should be /opt/bacula. The full recommendation is: #!/bin/sh # Recommended configure script for Bacula prefix=/opt/bacula [email protected] CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \ ./configure \ --sbindir=${prefix}/bin \ --sysconfdir=${prefix}/etc \ --docdir=${prefix}/html \ --htmldir=${prefix}/html \ --with-working-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-pid-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-subsys-dir=${prefix}/working \ --with-scriptdir=${prefix}/scripts \ --with-plugindir=${prefix}/plugins \ --libdir=${prefix}/lib \ --enable-smartalloc \ --enable-tray-monitor \ --enable-bat \ --with-mysql \ --with-dump-email=${email} \ --with-job-email=${email} \ --with-smtp-host=localhost \ --with-baseport=9101 Obviously, the email, and some of the minor options (mysql, postgresql, ...) can be changed to suit your distribution, but the directory names defined above are strongly recommended, and over time the default values in the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf will reflect these choices. If you have any questions about this or would like a detailed document describing our recommendations including packaging requirements, please send an email to the bacula-devel list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
