I gave up trying to fix this so compiled Bacula 9 from source
(http://bacula.us/compilation/ <http://bacula.us/compilation/>). That did all
the right things so good to go now. Just got to work through the script bugs.
-Chris-
> On 26 May 2018, at 9:40 pm, Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote:
>
>> On May 23, 2018, at 1:02 PM, Chris Wilkinson <winstonia...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:winstonia...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> This will seem a dumb question to the experienced Bacula user. I would
>> prefer to use mysql rather than the default sqlite. During installation
>> (Debian Stretch repo, Bacula v7.4.4) I said no to configuring sqlite
>> expecting to be offered the opportunity to configure mysql instead. That
>> didn't happen. I have created an empty bacula database with the appropriate
>> user/permissions but can't figure out how to make Bacula populate it or
>> connect.
>
> That sounds like a Debian packaging problem.
>
>>
>> At present the director fails to start of course.
>>
>> An extract from journalctl -xe follows indicating it is looking for sqlite.
>>
>> -- Unit bacula-director.service has begun starting up.
>> May 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER bacula-dir[16139]: bacula-dir: dird.c:969-0 Could
>> not open Catalog "MyCatalog", databasMay 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER
>> bacula-dir[16139]: bacula-dir: dird.c:974-0 sqlite.c:199 Database
>> /var/lib/bacula/XXX_DMay 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER bacula-dir[16139]: 23-May
>> 17:40 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION
>> May 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER bacula-dir[16139]: Please correct configuration
>> file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
>> May 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER systemd[1]: bacula-director.service: Control
>> process exited, code=exited status=1
>> May 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER systemd[1]: Failed to start Bacula Director
>> Daemon service.
>> -- Subject: Unit bacula-director.service has failed
>> -- Defined-By: systemd
>> -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support <https://www.debian.org/support>
>> --
>> -- Unit bacula-director.service has failed.
>> --
>> -- The result is failed.
>> May 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER systemd[1]: bacula-director.service: Unit entered
>> failed state.
>> May 23 17:40:41 HOMESERVER systemd[1]: bacula-director.service: Failed with
>> result 'exit-code'.
>> May 23 17:47:01 HOMESERVER minissdpd[716]: 4 new devices added
>> lines 2591-2644/2644 (END)
>>
>>
>> This seems to indicate that bacula-dir is wrong but I haven't found an
>> example of what it should be.
>>
>> Any help with that would be great.
>
> Does this help?
> http://www.bacula.org/7.4.x-manuals/en/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html
> <http://www.bacula.org/7.4.x-manuals/en/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html>
> Bacula will not create the required tables etc. You must do that.
>
> --
> Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
> d...@langille.org <mailto:d...@langille.org>
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