On Friday 26 April 2013 10.47:22 Marc Chamberlin wrote: > I guess I was asking this question on the wrong newsgroup (bacula-users) > thinking it was the place to ask for support... Anywise, got a > suggestion that this might be a more appropriate group (which I didn't > know about), so apologies if you saw this thread over there because I am > now repeating my question over here.. You can look at my thread (same > subject) over there to see how far I got with my questions/explanations.... > > This may be a Linux (openSuSE) distro error, but not knowing the internals > of how Bacula gets configured, I thought I would ask my question here > first. > > I get Bacula from the openSuSE (12.3) repositories, and as such I do not > have to compile/install Bacula from source, theoretically. The repository > contains what are called meta packages for Bacula, which select from a set > of other Bacula packages that have been pre-configured for whatever > database type one wishes to use. I chose the one for usage with MySQL. > > The installation went fine, I set up MySQL with out any problem, and > everything checked out OK. However, when I started up the Bacula daemons, > and it tried to do it's first backup, I encountered an error when it tried > to create a backup of the catalog itself and got an error message reporting > that there was no such file or directory called pg_dump. > > I tracked this error to the shell script file - make_catalog_backup - where > I discovered that pg_dump is a file that is to be used when using > PostgreSQL. I also learned that this script expects the name of the > database type to be passed in as the 5th parameter, and if it does not > recognize the database type, it was defaulting to using PostgreSQL. I > hacked this script and changed the default database type to mysql and that > worked! > > Note: the backups of various other computers on my network is working fine, > and the usage of the MariaDB database is working correctly for everything > else, so I believe I have installed Bacula correctly. > > So for my questions - > > 1. Shouldn't the default database type in this script have been set > (automagically) to mysql when the openSuSE developers set up Bacula for > distribution? I presume they built it with the .configure parameter set to > mysql for the MySQL meta package that I installed. > > 2. My second question is a bit more nuanced. OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer > supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed to be > 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim). I do not know where or how the > make_catalog_backup script is called from, so I don't know what got passed > in as the 5th parameter specifying the database type, but I wonder if this > changeover to using MariaDB instead of MySQL might have confused things? > > 3. Is this a bug that should be reported to the Bacula developers, or to the > OpenSuSE distro/packaging team? > > Thanks in advance for any info/advice offered.... Marc..
Hello Marc, please open always firstly a bug on bugzilla.novell.com for the package ( the easyest way is doing it from the obs link ) Please specify which repository you are using And mostly ( I've to read this mail very quickly due to time constraint) Your trouble come from the fact you use the old script (still there for historical reason) make_backup_catalog.pl is your new friend. About MariaDb, it should work out of the box, if not also bug me on bugzilla.o.o -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
