On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:00 -0500, Stack Stack wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am attempting to build Bacula on a Debian system. I am very much new > at Bacula, I have been reading the tutorials past several days, and > right now I am just doing testing on a secondary box before I mess > with the primary. So if I screw something up, tis no big deal. I am > familiar with Linux, but have just begun working with Debian (required > for this project), so I can't say I know Debian inside and out. > > When I was downloading the packages, I saw that there were .deb files. > Are those not the Debian installer files? I don't recall seeing > anything about Debian in the tutorials other then the fact it was a > supported OS. Has anyone used them to install that could give me some > pointers? Is it easier to install or more difficult? > > It's no big deal to rebuild from source (I have done it once already, > but I screwed it up when tweaking it). So I can do it again, I am just > trying out other methods so I know exactly what to do when I begin > work on the the primary system. >
You should be able to use apt-get to install the Debian packages, as opposed to downloading .deb files.. To see which bacula packages are available, run: apt-cache search bacula And then use apt-get to install the ones you want.. You'll have to pick a backend (mysql versus pgsql) but other than that it should be very straightforward. > Also, I will be dumping the backups to a raid5 array, so if anyone has > any comments, I would greatly appreciate hearing about what tends to > work best. > Definitely spend some time reading the manual - it's very helpful in this regard. I use a large raid5 array as well, and it works nicely. The only regret I have is that I didn't use LVM on top of the array, which would have been helpful since that array isn't only being used for backups. John ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
