On 4/26/2013 12:15 PM, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> 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 )
Thanks Bruno for your reply. I have reported this as a bug to openSuSE -
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817556
(I remain a bit dubious that this is their fault, but will follow
developments with interest!)
>
> Please specify which repository you are using
The repository I used to install Bacula from was
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup/openSUSE_12.3
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.
That may be the case, but keep in mind that I did not call
make_backup_catalog myself directly (i.e. via a command line). That is
something that is being done for me, by the bacula daemons, when they
backup the catalog as per my scheduling configuration. I don't have any
idea how or where this script was called from.
>
> About MariaDb, it should work out of the box, if not also bug me on
> bugzilla.o.o
>
What is bugzilla.o.o?
Marc...
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