On Friday 2021-12-24 13:32:42 Graham Dicker wrote: > Thanks for the tip Phil, which I will bear in mind if I ever get Bacula > working again as it should (and has done for the past 10 years or more). > Up until about a year ago my workstation would boot itself up when > woken by the motherboard timer and Bacula would start running as a > service and do the necessary backups. The first thing that stopped > working was the service. There seemed to be some problem with timing > between Bacula and mysql. I got around it by dropping the service and > using crontab to start mysql and Bacula in that order. Then a few > months ago that started failing due to some disagreement between > akonadi, Bacula and mysql as to where the mysql socket was and which > port was to be used. I solved that by total surrender to akonadi and > told Bacula to use the socket created by akonadi. Now I don't know > what's gone wrong. KMail behaviour has also changed in the last few day > also; I have to click on it twice to make it start up. I think OpenSuse > 15.3 must have had some dodgy updates recently.
That would explain why your database disappeared. It seems that you have been using mysql instance dedicated to akonadi service. I don't know how things are setup on Suse but on Centos/RHEL, akonadi service would by default bring up its own mysql instance, with its own mysql config file and data directory. It would also use its own socket. I wouldn't use that mysql instance for anything else but akonadi. I strongly suggest that you configure and bring up normal mysql service which can safely be used for bacula and other services as you se fit. If configured correctly you will not lose your databases any more. The timing between mysql and Bacula you have mentioned is likely caused by the akonadi which starts its mysql instance and that happens only during the graphical login or even after you start the "kontact" or similar application such as "kmail". Regards! -- Josip Deanovic _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
