Hello Stack!
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 11:00 am, 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.
You should get to know Debian, as it's the best Linux distribution! ;-)
> 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?
You are correct. .deb files are the files used by the Debian package
management system. There are source debs and binary debs, but I'm sure you've
downloaded the binaries.
There's a short answer and a long answer to your question. Here's the
short
answer, first:
dpkg --install package.deb ...
The long answer involves reading some manuals:
http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#usersguide
In particular, you need to familiarize yourself with dpkg, the Debian
Package
manager and with apt, the Advanced Package Tool. Once you've done that, then
the next step is to familiarize yourself with aptitude, which is a higher
level interface to the package manager and with the configuration files
in /etc/apt. Once you've set up a good sources list (you, probably already
have one) then downloading, installing & upgrading deb packages is almost
effortless.
> 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.
Really, really not necessary. But if you insist, there is a Debian way
of
doing it (of course).
> 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.
Personally, my research has lead me to favor RAID10, over RAID5. Disk
drives
have become so much less expensive that that the extra capacity required is
not that expensive. Are you using hardware of software RAID? RAID10 is now
supported by md & mdadm.
> Thanks,
> ~Stack~
Cheers!
cmr
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