4 \chapter{Installing Bacula}
6 \index[general]{Bacula!Installing}
7 \index[general]{Installing Bacula}
9 In general, you will need the Bacula source release, and if you want to run
10 a Windows client, you will need the Bacula Windows binary release.
11 However, Bacula needs certain third party packages (such as {\bf MySQL},
12 {\bf PostgreSQL}, or {\bf SQLite} to build and run
13 properly depending on the
14 options you specify. Normally, {\bf MySQL} and {\bf PostgreSQL} are
15 packages that can be installed on your distribution. However, if you do
16 not have them, to simplify your task, we have combined a number of these
17 packages into three {\bf depkgs} releases (Dependency Packages). This can
18 vastly simplify your life by providing you with all the necessary packages
19 rather than requiring you to find them on the Web, load them, and install
22 \section{Source Release Files}
23 \index[general]{Source Files}
24 \index[general]{Release Files}
25 Beginning with Bacula 1.38.0, the source code has been broken into
26 four separate tar files each corresponding to a different module in
27 the Bacula SVN. The released files are:
30 \item [bacula-5.0.0.tar.gz]
31 This is the primary source code release for Bacula. On each
32 release the version number (5.0.0) will be updated.
34 \item [bacula-docs-5.0.0.tar.bz2]
35 This file contains a copy of the docs directory with the
36 documents prebuild. English HTML directory, single HTML
37 file, and pdf file. The French, German, Spanish translations
38 are in progress, but are not built.
40 \item [bacula-gui-5.0.0.tar.gz]
41 This file contains the non-core GUI programs. Currently,
42 it contains bacula-web, a PHP program for producing management
43 viewing of your Bacula job status in a browser; and bimagemgr
44 a browser program for burning CDROM images with Bacula Volumes.
46 \item [bacula-rescue-5.0.0.tar.gz]
47 This is the Bacula Rescue USB key code. Note, the version number
48 of this package is not always tied to the Bacula release version, so
49 it may be different. Using this code, you can create a USB key
50 with your system configuration and containing a statically
51 linked version of the File daemon. This can permit you to easily
52 repartition and reformat your hard disks and reload your
53 system with Bacula in the case of a hard disk failure.
55 \item [win32bacula-5.0.0.exe]
56 This file is the 32 bit Windows installer for installing
57 the Windows client (File daemon) on a Windows machine.
58 This client will also run on 64 bit Windows machines, but
59 VSS support is not available if you are running a 64 bit
60 version of Windows. This installer installs only the FD,
61 the Director and Storage daemon are not included.
64 \item [win64bacula-5.0.0.exe]
65 This file is the 64 bit Windows installer for installing
66 the Windows client (File daemon) on a Windows machine.
67 This client will only run on 64 bit Windows OS machines.
68 It will not run on 32 bit machines or 32 bit Windows OSes.
69 The win64bacula release is necessary for Volume Shadow
70 Copy (VSS) to work on Win64 OSes. This installer
71 installs only the FD, the Director and Storage daemon
77 \section{Upgrading Bacula}
78 \index[general]{Bacula!Upgrading}
79 \index[general]{Upgrading Bacula}
80 \index[general]{Upgrading}
82 If you are upgrading from one Bacula version to another, you should first
83 carefully read the ReleaseNotes of all major versions between your current
84 version and the version to which you are upgrading. In many upgrades,
85 especially for minor patch upgrades (e.g. between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1) there
86 will be no database upgrade, and hence the process is rather simple.
88 With version 3.0.0 and later, you {\bf must} ensure that on any one
89 machine that all components of Bacula are running on exactly the
90 same version. Prior to version 3.0.0, it was possible to run a
91 lower level FD with a newer Director and SD. This is no longer the
94 As always, we attempt to support older File daemons. This avoids the
95 need to do a simultaneous upgrade of many machines. For exactly what
96 older versions of the FD are supported, please see the ReleaseNotes
97 for the new version. In any case, you must always upgrade both the
98 Director and the Storage daemon at the same time, and you must also
99 upgrade any File daemon that is running on the same machine as a Director
100 or a Storage daemon (see the prior paragraph).
102 If the Bacula catalog
103 database has been upgraded (as it is almost every major release), you will
104 either need to reinitialize your database starting from scratch (not
105 normally a good idea), or save an ASCII copy of your database, then proceed
106 to upgrade it. If you are upgrading two major versions (e.g. 1.36 to 2.0)
107 then life will be more complicated because you must do two database
108 upgrades. See below for more on this.
110 Upgrading the catalog is normally done after Bacula is build and installed
114 cd <installed-scripts-dir> (default /etc/bacula)
115 ./update_bacula_tables
118 This update script can also be find in the Bacula source src/cats
121 If there are several database upgrades between your version and the
122 version to which you are upgrading, you will need to apply each database
123 upgrade script. For your convenience, you can find all the old upgrade scripts
124 in the {\bf upgradedb} directory of the source code. You will need to edit the
125 scripts to correspond to your system configuration. The final upgrade script,
126 if any, can be applied as noted above.
128 If you are upgrading from one major version to another, you will need to
129 replace all your components at the same time as generally the inter-daemon
130 protocol will change. However, within any particular release (e.g. version
131 1.32.x) unless there is an oversight or bug, the daemon protocol will not
132 change. If this is confusing, simply read the ReleaseNotes very carefully as
133 they will note if all daemons must be upgraded at the same time.
135 Finally, please note that in general it is not necessary or desirable
136 to do a {\bf make uninstall} before doing an upgrade providing you are careful
137 not to change the installation directories. In fact, if you do so, you will
138 most likely delete all your conf files, which could be disastrous.
139 The normal procedure during an upgrade is simply:
142 ./configure (your options)
147 In general none of your existing .conf or .sql files will be overwritten,
148 and you must do both the {\bf make} and {\bf make install} commands, a
149 {\bf make install} without the preceding {\bf make} will not work.
151 For additional information on upgrading, please see the \ilink{Upgrading Bacula
152 Versions}{upgrading} in the Tips chapter of this manual.
154 \section{Releases Numbering}
155 \index[general]{Release Numbering}
156 \index[general]{Version Numbering}
157 Every Bacula release whether beta or production has a different number
158 as well as the date of the release build. The numbering system follows
159 traditional Open Source conventions in that it is of the form.
170 where each component (major, minor, patch) is a number.
171 The major number is currently 1 and normally does not change
172 very frequently. The minor number starts at 0 and increases
173 each for each production release by 2 (i.e. it is always an
174 even number for a production release), and the patch number is
175 starts at zero each time the minor number changes. The patch
176 number is increased each time a bug fix (or fixes) is released
179 So, as of this date (10 September 2006), the current production Bacula
180 release is version 1.38.11. If there are bug fixes, the next release
181 will be 1.38.12 (i.e. the patch number has increased by one).
183 For all patch releases where the minor version number does not change,
184 the database and all the daemons will be compatible. That means that
185 you can safely run a 1.38.0 Director with a 1.38.11 Client. Of course,
186 in this case, the Director may have bugs that are not fixed. Generally,
187 within a minor release (some minor releases are not so minor), all
188 patch numbers are officially released to production. This means that while
189 the current Bacula version is 1.38.11, versions 1.38.0, 1.38.1, ... 1.38.10
190 have all been previously released.
192 When the minor number is odd, it indicates that the package is under
193 development and thus may not be stable. For example, while the current
194 production release of Bacula is currently 1.38.11, the current development
195 version is 1.39.22. All patch versions of the development code are
196 available in the SVN (source repository). However, not all patch versions
197 of the development code (odd minor version) are officially released. When
198 they are released, they are released as beta versions (see below for a
199 definition of what beta means for Bacula releases).
201 In general when the minor number increases from one production release
202 to the next (i.e. 1.38.x to 1.40.0), the catalog database must be upgraded,
203 the Director and Storage daemon must always be on the same minor release
204 number, and often (not always), the Clients must also be on the same minor
205 release. As often as possible, we attempt to make new releases that are
206 downwards compatible with prior clients, but this is not always possible.
207 You must check the release notes. In general, you will have fewer problems
208 if you always run all the components on the same minor version number (i.e.
209 all either 1.38.x or 1.40.x but not mixed).
213 \section*{Beta Releases}
214 \index[general]{Beta Releases}
215 Towards the end of the development cycle, which typically runs
216 one year from a major release to another, there will be several beta
217 releases of the development code prior to a production release.
218 As noted above, beta versions always have odd minor version numbers
219 (e.g 1.37.x or 1.39.x).
220 The purpose of the beta releases is to allow early adopter users to test
221 the new code. Beta releases are made with the following considerations:
224 \item The code passes the regression testing on FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris
227 \item There are no known major bugs, or on the rare occasion that
228 there are, they will be documented or already in the bugs database.
230 \item Some of the new code/features may not yet be tested.
232 \item Bugs are expected to be found, especially in the new
233 code before the final production release.
235 \item The code will have been run in production in at least one small
238 \item The Win32 client will have been run in production at least
239 one night at that small site.
241 \item The documentation in the manual is unlikely to be complete especially
242 for the new features, and the Release Notes may not be fully
245 \item Beta code is not generally recommended for everyone, but
246 rather for early adopters.
251 \section{Dependency Packages}
252 \index[general]{Dependency Packages}
253 \index[general]{Packages!Dependency}
255 As discussed above, we have combined a number of third party packages that
256 Bacula might need into the {\bf depkgs} release. You can,
257 of course, get the latest packages from the original authors or
258 from your operating system supplier. The locations of
259 where we obtained the packages are in the README file in each package.
260 However, be aware that the packages in the depkgs files have been tested by us
261 for compatibility with Bacula.
263 Typically, a dependency package will be named {\bf depkgs-ddMMMyy.tar.gz}
264 where {\bf dd} is the day we release it, {\bf MMM}
265 is the abbreviated month (e.g. Jan), and {\bf yy} is the year. An actual
266 example is: {\bf depkgs-18Dec.tar.gz}. To install and build this package (if
267 needed), you do the following:
270 \item Create a {\bf bacula} directory, into which you will place both the
271 Bacula source as well as the dependency package.
272 \item Detar the {\bf depkgs} into the {\bf bacula} directory.
273 \item cd bacula/depkgs
277 Although the exact composition of the dependency packages may change from time
278 to time, the current makeup is the following:
280 \addcontentsline{lot}{table}{Dependency Packages}
281 \begin{longtable}{|l|l|l|}
283 \multicolumn{1}{|c| }{\bf 3rd Party Package} & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{\bf depkgs}
284 & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{\bf depkgs-qt} \\
285 \hline {SQLite3 } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{X } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{ }\\
286 \hline {mtx } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{X } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{ } \\
287 \hline {qt4 } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{ } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{X } \\
291 Note, some of these packages are quite large, so that building them can be a
292 bit time consuming. The above instructions will build all the packages
293 contained in the directory. However, when building Bacula, it will take only
294 those pieces that it actually needs.
296 Alternatively, you can make just the packages that are needed. For example,
305 will configure and build only the SQLite package.
307 You should build the packages that you will require in {\bf depkgs} a
308 prior to configuring and building Bacula, since Bacula will need
309 them during the build process.
311 Note, the {\bf depkgs-qt} package is required for building bat, because
312 bat is currently built with Qt version 4.3.4. It can be built with other
313 Qt versions, but that almost always creates problems or introduces
316 You can build the depkgs-qt with the following:
321 tar xfvz depkgs-qt-28Jul09.tar.gz
328 Doing the {\bf source qt4-path} defines the following environment
339 Each one should point to a specific location in the depkgs-qt package
340 that you loaded. It also puts the depkgs-qt/qt4/bin directory
341 on your path before all other directories. This ensures that
342 the bat build will use your Qt 4.3.4 library rather than any that
343 might be on your system.
345 Before running your Bacula build, please make sure that
346 {\bf qmake-qt4} is not on your path. If it is please rename it. If
347 you don't do this, Bacula will attempt to build with any Qt4 package
348 installed on your system rather than the one you just built.
349 If you logoff and log back in, you must re-source the depkgs-qt/qt4-patch
350 file before attempting to rebuild the bat part of Bacula.
352 For more information on the {\bf depkgs-qt} package, please read the
353 INSTALL file in the main directory of that package. If you are going to
354 build Qt4 using {\bf depkgs-qt}, you must source the {\bf qt4-paths} file
355 included in the package prior to building Bacula. Please read the INSTALL
356 file for more details.
358 Even if you do not use SQLite, you might find it worthwhile to build {\bf mtx}
359 because the {\bf tapeinfo} program that comes with it can often provide you
360 with valuable information about your SCSI tape drive (e.g. compression,
361 min/max block sizes, ...). Note, most distros provide {\bf mtx} as part of
364 The {\bf depkgs1} package is depreciated and previously contained
365 readline, which should be available on all operating systems.
367 The {\bf depkgs-win32} package is deprecated and no longer used in
368 Bacula version 1.39.x and later. It was previously used to build
369 the native Win32 client program, but this program is now built on Linux
370 systems using cross-compiling. All the tools and third party libraries
371 are automatically downloaded by executing the appropriate scripts. See
372 src/win32/README.mingw32 for more details.
374 \section{Supported Operating Systems}
376 \index[general]{Systems!Supported Operating}
377 \index[general]{Supported Operating Systems}
380 \ilink{ Supported Operating Systems}{SupportedOSes} section
381 of the QuickStart chapter of this manual.
383 \section{Building Bacula from Source}
385 \index[general]{Source!Building Bacula from}
386 \index[general]{Building Bacula from Source}
388 The basic installation is rather simple.
391 \item Install and build any {\bf depkgs} as noted above. This
392 should be unnecessary on most modern Operating Systems.
394 \item Configure and install MySQL or PostgreSQL (if desired).
395 \ilink{Installing and Configuring MySQL Phase I}{MySqlChapter} or
396 \ilink{Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL Phase
397 I}{PostgreSqlChapter}. If you are installing from rpms, and are
398 using MySQL, please be sure to install {\bf mysql-devel}, so that the MySQL
399 header files are available while compiling Bacula. In addition, the MySQL
400 client library {\bf mysqlclient} requires the gzip compression library {\bf
401 libz.a} or {\bf libz.so}. If you are using rpm packages, these libraries are
402 in the {\bf libz-devel} package. On Debian systems, you will need to load the
403 {\bf zlib1g-dev} package. If you are not using rpms or debs, you will need to
404 find the appropriate package for your system.
406 Note, if you already have a running MySQL or PostgreSQL on your system, you
407 can skip this phase provided that you have built the thread safe libraries.
408 And you have already installed the additional rpms noted above.
410 SQLite is not supported on Solaris. This is because it
411 frequently fails with bus errors. However SQLite3 may work.
413 \item Detar the Bacula source code preferably into the {\bf bacula} directory
416 \item {\bf cd} to the directory containing the source code.
418 \item ./configure (with appropriate options as described below). Any
419 path names you specify as options on the ./configure command line
420 must be absolute paths and not relative.
422 \item Check the output of ./configure very carefully, especially the Install
423 binaries and Install config directories. If they are not correct,
424 please rerun ./configure until they are. The output from ./configure is
425 stored in {\bf config.out} and can be re-displayed at any time without
426 rerunning the ./configure by doing {\bf cat config.out}.
428 \item If after running ./configure once, you decide to change options and
429 re-run it, that is perfectly fine, but before re-running it, you should run:
437 so that you are sure to start from scratch and not have a mixture of the two
438 options. This is because ./configure caches much of the information. The {\bf
439 make distclean} is also critical if you move the source directory from one
440 machine to another. If the {\bf make distclean} fails, just ignore it and
444 If you get errors while linking in the Storage daemon directory
445 (src/stored), it is probably because you have not loaded the static
446 libraries on your system. I noticed this problem on a Solaris system.
447 To correct it, make sure that you have not added {\bf
448 {-} {-}enable-static-tools} to the {\bf ./configure} command.
450 If you skip this step ({\bf make}) and proceed immediately to the {\bf
451 make install} you are making two serious errors: 1. your install will
452 fail because Bacula requires a {\bf make} before a {\bf make install}.
453 2. you are depriving yourself of the chance to make sure there are no
454 errors before beginning to write files to your system directories.
458 Please be sure you have done a {\bf make} before entering this command,
459 and that everything has properly compiled and linked without errors.
462 \item If you are new to Bacula, we {\bf strongly} recommend that you skip
463 the next step and use the default configuration files, then run the
464 example program in the next chapter, then come back and modify your
465 configuration files to suit your particular needs.
467 \item Customize the configuration files for each of the three daemons
468 (Directory, File, Storage) and for the Console program. For the details
469 of how to do this, please see \ilink{Setting Up Bacula Configuration
470 Files}{ConfigureChapter} in the Configuration chapter of this manual. We
471 recommend that you start by modifying the default configuration files
472 supplied, making the minimum changes necessary. Complete customization
473 can be done after you have Bacula up and running. Please take care when
474 modifying passwords, which were randomly generated, and the {\bf Name}s
475 as the passwords and names must agree between the configuration files
476 for security reasons.
478 \label{CreateDatabase}
479 \item Create the Bacula MySQL database and tables
481 \ilink{Installing and Configuring MySQL Phase II}{mysql_phase2} or
482 create the Bacula PostgreSQL database and tables
483 \ilink{Configuring PostgreSQL
484 II}{PostgreSQL_configure} or alternatively if you are using
485 SQLite \ilink{Installing and Configuring SQLite Phase II}{phase2}.
487 \item Start Bacula ({\bf ./bacula start}) Note. the next chapter shows you
488 how to do this in detail.
490 \item Interface with Bacula using the Console program
492 \item For the previous two items, please follow the instructions in the
493 \ilink{Running Bacula}{TutorialChapter} chapter of this manual,
494 where you will run a simple backup and do a restore. Do this before you make
495 heavy modifications to the configuration files so that you are sure that
496 Bacula works and are familiar with it. After that changing the conf files
499 \item If after installing Bacula, you decide to "move it", that is to
500 install it in a different set of directories, proceed as follows:
506 ./configure (your-new-options)
515 If all goes well, the {\bf ./configure} will correctly determine which
516 operating system you are running and configure the source code appropriately.
517 Currently, FreeBSD, Linux (Red Hat), and Solaris are supported. The Bacula
518 client (File daemon) is reported to work with MacOS X 10.3 is if
519 readline support is not enabled (default) when building the client.
521 If you install Bacula on more than one system, and they are identical, you can
522 simply transfer the source tree to that other system and do a "make
523 install". However, if there are differences in the libraries or OS versions,
524 or you wish to install on a different OS, you should start from the original
525 compress tar file. If you do transfer the source tree, and you have previously
526 done a ./configure command, you MUST do:
534 prior to doing your new ./configure. This is because the GNU autoconf tools
535 cache the configuration, and if you re-use a configuration for a Linux machine
536 on a Solaris, you can be sure your build will fail. To avoid this, as
537 mentioned above, either start from the tar file, or do a "make distclean".
539 In general, you will probably want to supply a more complicated {\bf
540 configure} statement to ensure that the modules you want are built and that
541 everything is placed into the correct directories.
543 For example, on Fedora, Red Hat, or SuSE one could use the following:
549 --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
550 --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
551 --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
552 --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
554 --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
555 --with-dump-email=$USER
559 The advantage of using the above configuration to start is that
560 everything will be put into a single directory, which you can later delete
561 once you have run the examples in the next chapter and learned how Bacula
562 works. In addition, the above can be installed and run as non-root.
564 For the developer's convenience, I have added a {\bf defaultconfig} script to
565 the {\bf examples} directory. This script contains the statements that you
566 would normally use, and each developer/user may modify them to suit his needs.
567 You should find additional useful examples in this directory as well.
569 The {\bf \verb:--:enable-conio} or {\bf \verb:--:enable-readline} options are
570 useful because they provide a command line history, editing capability for the
571 Console program and tab completion on various option. If you have included
572 either option in the build, either the {\bf termcap} or the {\bf ncurses}
573 package will be needed to link. On most systems, including Red Hat and SuSE,
574 you should include the ncurses package. If Bacula's configure process finds
575 the ncurses libraries, it will use those rather than the termcap library. On
576 some systems, such as SuSE, the termcap library is not in the standard library
577 directory. As a consequence, the option may be disabled or you may get an
578 error message such as:
582 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/.../ld:
583 cannot find -ltermcap
584 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
588 while building the Bacula Console. In that case, you will need to set the {\bf
589 LDFLAGS} environment variable prior to building.
593 export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/termcap"
597 The same library requirements apply if you wish to use the readline subroutines
598 for command line editing, history and tab completion or if you are using a
599 MySQL library that requires encryption. If you need encryption, you can either
600 export the appropriate additional library options as shown above or,
601 alternatively, you can include them directly on the ./configure line as in:
605 LDFLAGS="-lssl -lcyrpto" \
606 ./configure <your-options>
610 On some systems such as Mandriva, readline tends to
611 gobble up prompts, which makes it totally useless. If this happens to you, use
612 the disable option, or if you are using version 1.33 and above try using {\bf
613 \verb:--:enable-conio} to use a built-in readline replacement. You will still need
614 either the termcap or the ncurses library, but it is unlikely that the {\bf conio}
615 package will gobble up prompts.
617 readline is no longer supported after version 1.34. The code within Bacula
618 remains, so it should be usable, and if users submit patches for it, we will
619 be happy to apply them. However, due to the fact that each version of
620 readline seems to be incompatible with previous versions, and that there
621 are significant differences between systems, we can no longer afford to
624 \section{What Database to Use?}
626 \index[general]{What Database to Use?}
627 \index[general]{Use!What Database to}
629 Before building Bacula you need to decide if you want to use SQLite, MySQL, or
630 PostgreSQL. If you are not already running MySQL or PostgreSQL, you might
631 want to start by testing with SQLite (not supported on Solaris).
632 This will greatly simplify the setup for you
633 because SQLite is compiled into Bacula an requires no administration. It
634 performs well and is suitable for small to medium sized installations (maximum
635 10-20 machines). However, we should note that a number of users have
636 had unexplained database corruption with SQLite. For that reason, we
637 recommend that you install either PostgreSQL or MySQL for production
640 If you wish to use MySQL as the Bacula catalog, please see the
641 \ilink{Installing and Configuring MySQL}{MySqlChapter} chapter of this
642 manual. You will need to install MySQL prior to continuing with the
643 configuration of Bacula. MySQL is a high quality database that is very
644 efficient and is suitable for small and medium sized installation (up to
645 2,000,000 files per job). It is slightly more complicated than SQLite to setup
646 and administer because it has a number of sophisticated features such as
647 userids and passwords. It runs as a separate process, is truly professional and
648 can manage a database of any size.
650 If you wish to use PostgreSQL as the Bacula catalog, please see the
651 \ilink{Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL}{PostgreSqlChapter} chapter of
652 this manual. You will need to install PostgreSQL prior to continuing with the
653 configuration of Bacula. PostgreSQL is very similar to MySQL, though it tends
654 to be slightly more SQL92 compliant and has many more advanced features such as
655 transactions, stored procedures, and the such. It requires a certain knowledge
656 to install and maintain. PostgreSQL is suitable for any sized installation
657 (some sites have much more than 1 billion objects in the Catalog). Bacula uses
658 many optimized PostgreSQL functions, and can run more than 10 time faster on
659 jobs having millions of files than MySQL (Specially in during restore, accurate
660 mode, bvfs queries and when the database server is not on the same host than
661 the Director). It's possible to switch from MySQL/SQLite to PostgreSQL, but it
662 requires some DBA knowledge.
664 If you wish to use SQLite as the Bacula catalog, please see
665 \ilink{Installing and Configuring SQLite}{SqlLiteChapter} chapter of
666 this manual. SQLite is not supported on Solaris.
668 \section{Quick Start}
669 \index[general]{Quick Start}
670 \index[general]{Start!Quick}
672 There are a number of options and important considerations given below
673 that you can skip for the moment if you have not had any problems building
674 Bacula with a simplified configuration as shown above.
676 If the ./configure process is unable to find specific libraries (e.g.
677 libintl, you should ensure that the appropriate package is installed on
678 your system. Alternatively, if the package is installed in a non-standard
679 location (as far as Bacula is concerned), then there is generally an
680 option listed below (or listed with "./configure {-} {-}help" that will
681 permit you to specify the directory that should be searched. In other
682 cases, there are options that will permit you to disable to feature
683 (e.g. {-} {-}disable-nls).
685 If you want to dive right into it, we recommend you skip to the next chapter,
686 and run the example program. It will teach you a lot about Bacula and as an
687 example can be installed into a single directory (for easy removal) and run as
688 non-root. If you have any problems or when you want to do a real installation,
689 come back to this chapter and read the details presented below.
691 \section{Configure Options}
693 \index[general]{Options!Configure}
694 \index[general]{Configure Options}
696 The following command line options are available for {\bf configure} to
697 customize your installation.
700 \item [ \--prefix=\lt{}patch\gt{}]
701 \index[general]{{-}prefix}
702 This option is meant to allow you to direct where the architecture
703 independent files should be placed. However, we find this a somewhat
704 vague concept, and so we have not implemented this option other than
705 to use any explicit prefix that you may define. If you do not
706 explicitly specify a prefix, Bacula's configure routine will not use
707 the default value that ./configure --help prints.
708 As a consequence, we suggest that
709 you avoid it. We have provided options that allow you to explicitly
710 specify the directories for each of the major categories of installation
712 \item [ {-}{\-}sbindir=\lt{}binary-path\gt{}]
713 \index[general]{{-}{\-}sbindir}
714 Defines where the Bacula binary (executable) files will be placed during a
715 {\bf make install} command.
717 \item [ {-}{\-}sysconfdir=\lt{}config-path\gt{}]
718 \index[general]{{-}{\-}sysconfdir}
719 Defines where the Bacula configuration files should be placed during a
720 {\bf make install} command.
722 \item [ {-}{\-}mandir=\lt{}path\gt{}]
723 \index[general]{{-}{\-}mandir}
724 Note, as of Bacula version 1.39.14, the meaning of any path
725 specified on this option is change from prior versions. It
726 now specifies the top level man directory.
727 Previously the mandir specified the full path to where you
728 wanted the man files installed.
729 The man files will be installed in gzip'ed format under
730 mandir/man1 and mandir/man8 as appropriate.
731 For the install to succeed you must have {\bf gzip} installed
734 By default, Bacula will install the Unix man pages in
735 /usr/share/man/man1 and /usr/share/man/man8.
736 If you wish the man page to be installed in
737 a different location, use this option to specify the path.
738 Note, the main HTML and PDF Bacula documents are in a separate
739 tar file that is not part of the source distribution.
741 \item [ {-}{\-}datadir=\lt{}path\gt{} ]
742 \index[general]{{-}{\-}datadir}
743 If you translate Bacula or parts of Bacula into a different language
744 you may specify the location of the po files using the {\bf
745 {-}{\-}datadir} option. You must manually install any po files as
746 Bacula does not (yet) automatically do so.
748 \item [ {-}{\-}disable-ipv6 ]
749 \index[general]{{-}{\-}disable-ipv6}
751 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-smartalloc ]
752 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-smartalloc}
753 This enables the inclusion of the Smartalloc orphaned buffer detection
754 code. This option is highly recommended. Because we never build
755 without this option, you may experience problems if it is not enabled.
756 In this case, simply re-enable the option. We strongly recommend
757 keeping this option enabled as it helps detect memory leaks. This
758 configuration parameter is used while building Bacula
760 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-bat ]
762 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-bat}
763 If you have Qt4 >= 4.3.4 installed on your computer including the
764 libqt4 and libqt4-devel (libqt4-dev on Debian) libraries, and you want
765 to use the Bacula Administration Tool (bat) GUI Console interface to
766 Bacula, you must specify this option. Doing so will build everything in
767 the {\bf src/qt-console} directory. The build with enable-bat will work
768 only with a full Bacula build (i.e. it will not work with a client-only
771 Qt4 is available on OpenSUSE 10.2, CentOS 5, Fedora, and Debian. If it
772 is not available on your system, you can download the {\bf depkgs-qt}
773 package from the Bacula Source Forge download area and build it.
775 INSTALL file in that package for more details. In particular to use
776 the Qt4 built by {\bf depkgs-qt} you {\bf must} source the file
779 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-batch-insert ]
780 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-batch-insert}
781 This option enables batch inserts of the attribute records (default) in
782 the catalog database, which is much faster (10 times or more) than
783 without this option for large numbers of files. However, this option
784 will automatically be disabled if your SQL libraries are not
785 thread safe. If you find that batch mode is not enabled on your Bacula
786 installation, then your database most likely does not support threads.
788 SQLite2 is not thread safe. Batch insert cannot be enabled when using
791 On most systems, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 are thread safe.
793 To verify that your PostgreSQL is thread safe, you can try this
794 (change the path to point to your particular installed libpq.a;
795 these commands were issued on FreeBSD 6.2):
798 $ nm /usr/local/lib/libpq.a | grep PQputCopyData
799 00001b08 T PQputCopyData
800 $ nm /usr/local/lib/libpq.a | grep mutex
802 U pthread_mutex_unlock
805 U pthread_mutex_unlock
808 The above example shows a libpq that contains the required function
809 PQputCopyData and is thread enabled (i.e. the pthread\_mutex* entries).
810 If you do not see PQputCopyData, your version of PostgreSQL is too old
811 to allow batch insert. If you do not see the mutex entries, then thread
812 support has not been enabled. Our tests indicate you usually need to
813 change the configuration options and recompile/reinstall the PostgreSQL
814 client software to get thread support.
816 Bacula always links to the thread safe MySQL libraries.
818 Running with Batch Insert turned on is recommended because it can
819 significantly improve attribute insertion times. However, it does
820 put a significantly larger part of the work on your SQL engine, so
821 you may need to pay more attention to tuning it. In particular,
822 Batch Insert can require large temporary table space, and consequently,
823 the default location (often /tmp) may run out of space causing errors.
824 For MySQL, the location is set in my.conf with "tmpdir". You may also
825 want to increase the memory available to your SQL engine to further
826 improve performance during Batch Inserts.
828 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-bwx-console ]
829 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-bwx-console}
830 If you have wxWidgets installed on your computer and you want to use the
831 wxWidgets GUI Console interface to Bacula, you must specify this option.
832 Doing so will build everything in the {\bf src/wx-console} directory.
833 This could also be useful to users who want a GUI Console and don't want
834 to install QT, as wxWidgets can work with GTK+, Motif or even X11
837 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-tray-monitor ]
838 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-tray-monitor}
839 If you have GTK installed on your computer, you run a graphical
840 environment or a window manager compatible with the FreeDesktop system
841 tray standard (like KDE and GNOME) and you want to use a GUI to monitor
842 Bacula daemons, you must specify this option. Doing so will build
843 everything in the {\bf src/tray-monitor} directory. Note, due to
844 restrictions on what can be linked with GPLed code, we were forced to
845 remove the egg code that dealt with the tray icons and replace it by
846 calls to the GTK+ API, and unfortunately, the tray icon API necessary
847 was not implemented until GTK version 2.10 or later.
849 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-static-tools]
850 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-static-tools}
851 This option causes the linker to link the Storage daemon utility tools
852 ({\bf bls}, {\bf bextract}, and {\bf bscan}) statically. This permits
853 using them without having the shared libraries loaded. If you have
854 problems linking in the {\bf src/stored} directory, make sure you have
855 not enabled this option, or explicitly disable static linking by adding
856 {\bf \verb:--:disable-static-tools}.
858 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-static-fd]
859 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-static-fd}
860 This option causes the make process to build a {\bf static-bacula-fd} in
861 addition to the standard File daemon. This static version will include
862 statically linked libraries and is required for the Bare Metal recovery.
863 This option is largely superseded by using {\bf make static-bacula-fd}
864 from with in the {\bf src/filed} directory. Also, the {\bf
865 \verb:--:enable-client-only} option described below is useful for just
866 building a client so that all the other parts of the program are not
869 When linking a static binary, the linker needs the static versions
870 of all the libraries that are used, so frequently users will
871 experience linking errors when this option is used. The first
872 thing to do is to make sure you have the static glibc library
873 installed on your system. The second thing to do is the make sure
874 you do not specify {\bf {-}{\-}openssl} or {\bf {-}{\-}with-python}
875 on your ./configure statement as these options require additional
876 libraries. You may be able to enable those options, but you will
877 need to load additional static libraries.
880 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-static-sd]
881 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-static-sd}
882 This option causes the make process to build a {\bf static-bacula-sd} in
883 addition to the standard Storage daemon. This static version will
884 include statically linked libraries and could be useful during a Bare
887 When linking a static binary, the linker needs the static versions
888 of all the libraries that are used, so frequently users will
889 experience linking errors when this option is used. The first
890 thing to do is to make sure you have the static glibc library
891 installed on your system. The second thing to do is the make sure
892 you do not specify {\bf {-}{\-}openssl} or {\bf {-}{\-}with-python}
893 on your ./configure statement as these options require additional
894 libraries. You may be able to enable those options, but you will
895 need to load additional static libraries.
898 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-static-dir]
899 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-static-dir}
900 This option causes the make process to build a {\bf static-bacula-dir}
901 in addition to the standard Director. This static version will include
902 statically linked libraries and could be useful during a Bare Metal
905 When linking a static binary, the linker needs the static versions
906 of all the libraries that are used, so frequently users will
907 experience linking errors when this option is used. The first
908 thing to do is to make sure you have the static glibc library
909 installed on your system. The second thing to do is the make sure
910 you do not specify {\bf {-}{\-}openssl} or {\bf {-}{\-}with-python}
911 on your ./configure statement as these options require additional
912 libraries. You may be able to enable those options, but you will
913 need to load additional static libraries.
916 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-static-cons]
917 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-static-cons}
918 This option causes the make process to build a {\bf static-console} in
919 addition to the standard console. This static version will include
920 statically linked libraries and could be useful during a Bare Metal
923 When linking a static binary, the linker needs the static versions
924 of all the libraries that are used, so frequently users will
925 experience linking errors when this option is used. The first
926 thing to do is to make sure you have the static glibc library
927 installed on your system. The second thing to do is the make sure
928 you do not specify {\bf {-}{\-}openssl} or {\bf {-}{\-}with-python}
929 on your ./configure statement as these options require additional
930 libraries. You may be able to enable those options, but you will
931 need to load additional static libraries.
934 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-client-only]
935 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-client-only}
936 This option causes the make process to build only the File daemon and
937 the libraries that it needs. None of the other daemons, storage tools,
938 nor the console will be built. Likewise a {\bf make install} will then
939 only install the File daemon. To cause all daemons to be built, you
940 will need to do a configuration without this option. This option
941 greatly facilitates building a Client on a client only machine.
943 When linking a static binary, the linker needs the static versions
944 of all the libraries that are used, so frequently users will
945 experience linking errors when this option is used. The first
946 thing to do is to make sure you have the static glibc library
947 installed on your system. The second thing to do is the make sure
948 you do not specify {\bf {-}{\-}openssl} or {\bf {-}{\-}with-python}
949 on your ./configure statement as these options require additional
950 libraries. You may be able to enable those options, but you will
951 need to load additional static libraries.
953 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-build-dird]
954 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-build-dird}
955 This option causes the make process to build the Director and the
956 Director's tools. By default, this option is on, but you may turn
957 it off by using {\bf {-}{\-}disable-build-dird} to prevent the
958 Director from being built.
960 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-build-stored]
961 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-build-stored}
962 This option causes the make process to build the Storage daemon.
963 By default, this option is on, but you may turn
964 it off by using {\bf {-}{\-}disable-build-stored} to prevent the
965 Storage daemon from being built.
968 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-largefile]
969 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-largefile}
970 This option (default) causes Bacula to be built with 64 bit file address
971 support if it is available on your system. This permits Bacula to read and
972 write files greater than 2 GBytes in size. You may disable this feature and
973 revert to 32 bit file addresses by using {\bf \verb:--:disable-largefile}.
975 \item [ {-}{\-}disable-nls]
976 \index[general]{{-}{\-}disable-nls}
977 By default, Bacula uses the GNU Native Language Support (NLS) libraries. On
978 some machines, these libraries may not be present or may not function
979 correctly (especially on non-Linux implementations). In such cases, you
980 may specify {\bf {-}{\-}disable-nls} to disable use of those libraries.
981 In such a case, Bacula will revert to using English.
983 \item [ {-}{\-}disable-ipv6 ]
984 \index[general]{{-}{\-}disable-ipv6}
985 By default, Bacula enables IPv6 protocol. On some systems, the files
986 for IPv6 may exist, but the functionality could be turned off in the
987 kernel. In that case, in order to correctly build Bacula, you will
988 explicitly need to use this option so that Bacula does not attempt
989 to reference OS function calls that do not exist.
991 \item [ {-}{\-}with-sqlite3=\lt{}sqlite3-path\gt{}]
992 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-sqlite3}
993 This enables use of the SQLite version 3.x database. The {\bf
994 sqlite3-path} is not normally specified as Bacula looks for the
995 necessary components in a standard location ({\bf depkgs/sqlite3}). See
996 \ilink{Installing and Configuring SQLite}{SqlLiteChapter} chapter of
997 this manual for more details. SQLite3 is not supported on Solaris.
999 \item [ {-}{\-}with-mysql=\lt{}mysql-path\gt{}]
1000 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-mysql}
1001 This enables building of the Catalog services for Bacula. It assumes
1002 that MySQL is running on your system, and expects it to be installed in
1003 the {\bf mysql-path} that you specify. Normally, if MySQL is installed
1004 in a standard system location, you can simply use {\bf {-}{\-}with-mysql}
1005 with no path specification. If you do use this option, please proceed
1006 to installing MySQL in the \ilink{Installing and Configuring
1007 MySQL}{MySqlChapter} chapter before proceeding with the configuration.
1009 See the note below under the {-}{\-}with-postgresql item.
1011 \item [ {-}{\-}with-postgresql=\lt{}path\gt{}]
1012 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-postgresql}
1013 This provides an explicit path to the PostgreSQL libraries if Bacula
1014 cannot find it by default. Normally to build with PostgreSQL, you would
1015 simply use {\bf {-}{\-}with-postgresql}.
1017 Note, for Bacula to be configured properly, you must specify one
1018 of the four database options supported. That is:
1019 {-}{\-}with-sqlite, {-}{\-}with-sqlite3, {-}{\-}with-mysql, or
1020 {-}{\-}with-postgresql, otherwise the ./configure will fail.
1022 \item [ {-}{\-}with-openssl=\lt{}path\gt{}]
1023 This configuration option is necessary if you want to enable TLS (ssl),
1024 which encrypts the communications within
1025 Bacula or if you want to use File Daemon PKI data encryption.
1026 Normally, the {\bf path} specification is not necessary since
1027 the configuration searches for the OpenSSL libraries in standard system
1028 locations. However, you must ensure that all the libraries are
1029 loaded including {\bf libssl-dev} or the equivalent on your
1030 system. Enabling OpenSSL in Bacula permits secure communications
1031 between the daemons and/or data encryption in the File daemon.
1032 For more information on using TLS, please see the
1033 \ilink{Bacula TLS -- Communications Encryption}{CommEncryption} chapter
1035 For more information on using PKI data encryption, please see the
1036 \ilink{Bacula PKI -- Data Encryption}{DataEncryption}
1037 chapter of this manual.
1039 If you get errors linking, you need to load the development libraries,
1040 or you need to disable SSL by setting without-openssl.
1043 \item [ {-}{\-}with-python=\lt{}path\gt{}]
1044 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-python}
1045 This option enables Bacula support for Python. If no path is supplied,
1046 configure will search the standard library locations for Python 2.2,
1047 2.3, 2.4, or 2.5. If it cannot find the library, you will need to
1048 supply a path to your Python library directory. Please see the
1049 \ilink{Python chapter}{PythonChapter} for the details of using Python
1052 \item [ {-}{\-}with-libintl-prefix=\lt{}DIR\gt{}]
1053 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-libintl-prefix}
1054 This option may be used to tell Bacula to search DIR/include and
1055 DIR/lib for the libintl headers and libraries needed for Native
1056 Language Support (NLS).
1058 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-conio]
1059 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-conio}
1060 Tells Bacula to enable building the small, light weight readline
1061 replacement routine. It is generally much easier to configure than
1062 readline, although, like readline, it needs either the termcap or
1065 \item [ {-}{\-}with-readline=\lt{}readline-path\gt{}]
1066 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-readline}
1067 Tells Bacula where {\bf readline} is installed. Normally, Bacula will
1068 find readline if it is in a standard library. If it is not found and no
1069 {-}{\-}with-readline is specified, readline will be disabled. This
1070 option affects the Bacula build. Readline provides the Console program
1071 with a command line history and editing capability and is no longer
1072 supported, so you are on your own if you have problems.
1074 \item [ {-}{\-}enable-readline]
1075 \index[general]{{-}{\-}enable-readline}
1076 Tells Bacula to enable readline support. It is normally disabled due to the
1077 large number of configuration problems and the fact that the package seems to
1078 change in incompatible ways from version to version.
1080 \item [ {-}{\-}with-tcp-wrappers=\lt{}path\gt{}]
1081 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-tcp-wrappers}
1082 \index[general]{TCP Wrappers}
1083 \index[general]{Wrappers!TCP}
1084 \index[general]{libwrappers}
1085 This specifies that you want TCP wrappers (man hosts\_access(5)) compiled in.
1086 The path is optional since Bacula will normally find the libraries in the
1087 standard locations. This option affects the Bacula build. In specifying your
1088 restrictions in the {\bf /etc/hosts.allow} or {\bf /etc/hosts.deny} files, do
1089 not use the {\bf twist} option (hosts\_options(5)) or the Bacula process will
1090 be terminated. Note, when setting up your {\bf /etc/hosts.allow}
1091 or {\bf /etc/hosts.deny}, you must identify the Bacula daemon in
1092 question with the name you give it in your conf file rather than the
1093 name of the executable.
1095 For more information on configuring and testing TCP wrappers, please see the
1096 \ilink{Configuring and Testing TCP Wrappers}{wrappers} section
1097 in the Security Chapter.
1099 On SuSE, the libwrappers libraries needed to link Bacula are
1100 contained in the tcpd-devel package. On Red Hat, the package is named
1103 \item [ {-}{\-}with-archivedir=\lt{}path\gt{} ]
1104 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-archivedir}
1105 The directory used for disk-based backups. Default value is /tmp.
1106 This parameter sets the default values in the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf
1107 configuration files. For example, it sets the Where directive for the
1108 default restore job and the Archive Device directive for the FileStorage
1111 This option is designed primarily for use in regression testing.
1112 Most users can safely ignore this option.
1114 \item [ {-}{\-}with-working-dir=\lt{}working-directory-path\gt{} ]
1115 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-working-dir}
1116 This option is mandatory and specifies a directory into which Bacula may
1117 safely place files that will remain between Bacula executions. For example,
1118 if the internal database is used, Bacula will keep those files in this
1119 directory. This option is only used to modify the daemon configuration
1120 files. You may also accomplish the same thing by directly editing them later.
1121 The working directory is not automatically created by the install process, so
1122 you must ensure that it exists before using Bacula for the first time.
1124 \item [ {-}{\-}with-baseport=\lt{}port=number\gt{}]
1125 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-baseport}
1126 In order to run, Bacula needs three TCP/IP ports (one for the Bacula
1127 Console, one for the Storage daemon, and one for the File daemon). The {\bf
1128 \verb:--:with-baseport} option will automatically assign three ports beginning at
1129 the base port address specified. You may also change the port number in the
1130 resulting configuration files. However, you need to take care that the
1131 numbers correspond correctly in each of the three daemon configuration
1132 files. The default base port is 9101, which assigns ports 9101 through 9103.
1133 These ports (9101, 9102, and 9103) have been officially assigned to Bacula by
1134 IANA. This option is only used to modify the daemon configuration files. You
1135 may also accomplish the same thing by directly editing them later.
1137 \item [ {-}{\-}with-dump-email=\lt{}email-address\gt{}]
1138 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-dump-email}
1139 This option specifies the email address where any core dumps should be set.
1140 This option is normally only used by developers.
1142 \item [ {-}{\-}with-pid-dir=\lt{}PATH\gt{} ]
1143 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-pid-dir}
1144 This specifies where Bacula should place the process id file during
1145 execution. The default is: {\bf /var/run}. This directory is not created by
1146 the install process, so you must ensure that it exists before using Bacula
1149 \item [ {-}{\-}with-subsys-dir=\lt{}PATH\gt{}]
1150 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-subsys-dir}
1151 This specifies where Bacula should place the subsystem lock file during
1152 execution. The default is {\bf /var/run/subsys}. Please make sure that you do
1153 not specify the same directory for this directory and for the {\bf sbindir}
1154 directory. This directory is used only within the autostart scripts. The
1155 subsys directory is not created by the Bacula install, so you must be sure to
1156 create it before using Bacula.
1158 \item [ {-}{\-}with-dir-password=\lt{}Password\gt{}]
1159 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-dir-password}
1160 This option allows you to specify the password used to access the Director
1161 (normally from the Console program). If it is not specified, configure will
1162 automatically create a random password.
1164 \item [ {-}{\-}with-fd-password=\lt{}Password\gt{} ]
1165 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-fd-password}
1166 This option allows you to specify the password used to access the File daemon
1167 (normally called from the Director). If it is not specified, configure will
1168 automatically create a random password.
1170 \item [ {-}{\-}with-sd-password=\lt{}Password\gt{} ]
1171 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-sd-password}
1172 This option allows you to specify the password used to access the Storage daemon
1173 (normally called from the Director). If it is not specified, configure will
1174 automatically create a random password.
1176 \item [ {-}{\-}with-dir-user=\lt{}User\gt{} ]
1177 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-dir-user}
1178 This option allows you to specify the Userid used to run the Director. The
1179 Director must be started as root, but doesn't need to run as root, and
1180 after doing preliminary initializations, it can "drop" to the UserId
1181 specified on this option.
1182 If you specify this option, you must
1183 create the User prior to running {\bf make install}, because the
1184 working directory owner will be set to {\bf User}.
1186 \item [ {-}{\-}with-dir-group=\lt{}Group\gt{} ]
1187 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-dir-group}
1188 This option allows you to specify the GroupId used to run the Director. The
1189 Director must be started as root, but doesn't need to run as root, and after
1190 doing preliminary initializations, it can "drop" to the GroupId specified
1192 If you specify this option, you must
1193 create the Group prior to running {\bf make install}, because the
1194 working directory group will be set to {\bf Group}.
1196 \item [ {-}{\-}with-sd-user=\lt{}User\gt{} ]
1197 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-sd-user}
1198 This option allows you to specify the Userid used to run the Storage daemon.
1199 The Storage daemon must be started as root, but doesn't need to run as root,
1200 and after doing preliminary initializations, it can "drop" to the UserId
1201 specified on this option. If you use this option, you will need to take care
1202 that the Storage daemon has access to all the devices (tape drives, ...) that
1205 \item [ {-}{\-}with-sd-group=\lt{}Group\gt{} ]
1206 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-sd-group}
1207 This option allows you to specify the GroupId used to run the Storage daemon.
1208 The Storage daemon must be started as root, but doesn't need to run as root,
1209 and after doing preliminary initializations, it can "drop" to the GroupId
1210 specified on this option.
1212 \item [ {-}{\-}with-fd-user=\lt{}User\gt{} ]
1213 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-fd-user}
1214 This option allows you to specify the Userid used to run the File daemon. The
1215 File daemon must be started as root, and in most cases, it needs to run as
1216 root, so this option is used only in very special cases, after doing
1217 preliminary initializations, it can "drop" to the UserId specified on this
1220 \item [ {-}{\-}with-fd-group=\lt{}Group\gt{} ]
1221 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-fd-group}
1222 This option allows you to specify the GroupId used to run the File daemon.
1223 The File daemon must be started as root, and in most cases, it must be run as
1224 root, however, after doing preliminary initializations, it can "drop" to
1225 the GroupId specified on this option.
1227 \item [ {-}{\-}with-mon-dir-password=\lt{}Password\gt{}]
1228 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-mon-dir-password}
1229 This option allows you to specify the password used to access the Directory
1230 from the monitor. If it is not specified, configure will
1231 automatically create a random password.
1233 \item [ {-}{\-}with-mon-fd-password=\lt{}Password\gt{} ]
1234 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-mon-fd-password}
1235 This option allows you to specify the password used to access the File daemon
1236 from the Monitor. If it is not specified, configure will
1237 automatically create a random password.
1239 \item [ {-}{\-}with-mon-sd-password=\lt{}Password\gt{} ]
1240 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-mon-sd-password}
1241 This option allows you to specify the password used to access the
1242 Storage daemon from the Monitor. If it is not specified, configure will
1243 automatically create a random password.
1245 \item [ {-}{\-}with-db-name=\lt{}database-name\gt{} ]
1246 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-db-name}
1247 This option allows you to specify the database name to be used in
1248 the conf files. The default is bacula.
1250 \item [ {-}{\-}with-db-user=\lt{}database-user\gt{} ]
1251 \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-db-user}
1252 This option allows you to specify the database user name to be used in
1253 the conf files. The default is bacula.
1257 Note, many other options are presented when you do a {\bf ./configure
1258 \verb:--:help}, but they are not implemented.
1260 \section{Recommended Options for Most Systems}
1261 \index[general]{Systems!Recommended Options for Most}
1262 \index[general]{Recommended Options for Most Systems}
1264 For most systems, we recommend starting with the following options:
1269 --enable-smartalloc \
1270 --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1271 --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1272 --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1273 --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1274 --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
1275 --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working
1279 If you want to install Bacula in an installation directory rather than run it
1280 out of the build directory (as developers will do most of the time), you
1281 should also include the \verb:--:sbindir and \verb:--:sysconfdir options with appropriate
1282 paths. Neither are necessary if you do not use "make install" as is the case
1283 for most development work. The install process will create the sbindir and
1284 sysconfdir if they do not exist, but it will not automatically create the
1285 pid-dir, subsys-dir, or working-dir, so you must ensure that they exist before
1286 running Bacula for the first time.
1289 \index[general]{Red Hat}
1296 CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure \
1297 --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1298 --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1299 --enable-smartalloc \
1300 --with-sqlite=$HOME/bacula/depkgs/sqlite \
1301 --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working \
1302 --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1303 --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1314 CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure \
1315 --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1316 --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1317 --enable-smartalloc \
1318 --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
1319 --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working
1320 --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1321 --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working
1326 or finally, a completely traditional Red Hat Linux install:
1330 CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure \
1331 --sbindir=/usr/sbin \
1332 --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula \
1333 --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula \
1334 --enable-smartalloc \
1337 --with-working-dir=/var/bacula \
1338 --with-pid-dir=/var/run \
1343 Note, Bacula assumes that /var/bacula, /var/run, and /var/lock/subsys exist so
1344 it will not automatically create them during the install process.
1347 \index[general]{Solaris}
1349 To build Bacula from source, you will need the following installed on your
1350 system (they are not by default): libiconv, gcc 3.3.2, stdc++, libgcc (for
1351 stdc++ and gcc\_s libraries), make 3.8 or later.
1353 You will probably also need to: Add /usr/local/bin to PATH and Add
1354 /usr/ccs/bin to PATH for ar.
1356 It is possible to build Bacula on Solaris with the Solaris compiler, but
1357 we recommend using GNU C++ if possible.
1359 A typical configuration command might look like:
1364 CFLAGS="-g" ./configure \
1365 --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1366 --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1367 --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
1368 --enable-smartalloc \
1369 --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1370 --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1371 --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working
1375 As mentioned above, the install process will create the sbindir and sysconfdir
1376 if they do not exist, but it will not automatically create the pid-dir,
1377 subsys-dir, or working-dir, so you must ensure that they exist before running
1378 Bacula for the first time.
1380 Note, you may need to install the following packages to build Bacula
1400 PATH=/usr/bin::/usr/ccs/bin:/etc:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sbin
1404 If you have installed special software not normally in the Solaris
1405 libraries, such as OpenSSL, or the packages shown above, then you may need
1406 to add {\bf /usr/sfw/lib} to the library search path. Probably the
1407 simplest way to do so is to run:
1411 setenv LDFLAGS "-L/usr/sfw/lib -R/usr/sfw/lib"
1415 Prior to running the ./configure command.
1417 Alternatively, you can set the LD\_LIBARY\_PATH and/or the LD\_RUN\_PATH
1418 environment variables appropriately.
1420 It is also possible to use the {\bf crle} program to set the library
1421 search path. However, this should be used with caution.
1424 \index[general]{FreeBSD}
1427 \elink{The FreeBSD Diary}{http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula.php} for a
1428 detailed description on how to make Bacula work on your system. In addition,
1429 users of FreeBSD prior to 4.9-STABLE dated Mon Dec 29 15:18:01 2003 UTC who
1430 plan to use tape devices, please see the
1431 \ilink{Tape Testing Chapter}{FreeBSDTapes} of this manual for
1432 {\bf important} information on how to configure your tape drive for
1433 compatibility with Bacula.
1435 If you are using Bacula with MySQL, you should take care to compile MySQL with
1436 FreeBSD native threads rather than LinuxThreads, since Bacula is normally built
1437 with FreeBSD native threads rather than LinuxTreads. Mixing the two will
1441 \index[general]{Win32}
1443 To install the binary Win32 version of the File daemon please see the
1444 \ilink{Win32 Installation Chapter}{Win32Chapter} in this document.
1446 \section{One File Configure Script}
1447 \index[general]{Script!One File Configure}
1448 \index[general]{One Files Configure Script}
1450 The following script could be used if you want to put everything
1458 --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1459 --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1460 --mandir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
1461 --enable-smartalloc \
1463 --enable-bwx-console \
1464 --enable-tray-monitor \
1465 --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1466 --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1468 --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
1469 --with-dump-email=$USER@your-site.com \
1470 --with-job-email=$USER@your-site.com \
1471 --with-smtp-host=mail.your-site.com
1476 You may also want to put the following entries in your {\bf /etc/services}
1477 file as it will make viewing the connections made by Bacula easier to
1478 recognize (i.e. netstat -a):
1488 \section{Installing Bacula}
1489 \index[general]{Bacula!Installing}
1490 \index[general]{Installing Bacula}
1492 Before setting up your configuration files, you will want to install Bacula in
1493 its final location. Simply enter:
1501 If you have previously installed Bacula, the old binaries will be overwritten,
1502 but the old configuration files will remain unchanged, and the "new"
1503 configuration files will be appended with a {\bf .new}. Generally if you have
1504 previously installed and run Bacula you will want to discard or ignore the
1505 configuration files with the appended {\bf .new}.
1507 \section{Building a File Daemon or Client}
1508 \index[general]{Client!Building a File Daemon or}
1509 \index[general]{Building a File Daemon or Client}
1511 If you run the Director and the Storage daemon on one machine and you wish to
1512 back up another machine, you must have a copy of the File daemon for that
1513 machine. If the machine and the Operating System are identical, you can simply
1514 copy the Bacula File daemon binary file {\bf bacula-fd} as well as its
1515 configuration file {\bf bacula-fd.conf} then modify the name and password in
1516 the conf file to be unique. Be sure to make corresponding additions to the
1517 Director's configuration file ({\bf bacula-dir.conf}).
1519 If the architecture or the OS level are different, you will need to build a
1520 File daemon on the Client machine. To do so, you can use the same {\bf
1521 ./configure} command as you did for your main program, starting either from a
1522 fresh copy of the source tree, or using {\bf make\ distclean} before the {\bf
1525 Since the File daemon does not access the Catalog database, you can remove
1526 the {\bf \verb:--:with-mysql} or {\bf \verb:--:with-sqlite} options, then
1527 add {\bf \verb:--:enable-client-only}. This will compile only the
1528 necessary libraries and the client programs and thus avoids the necessity
1529 of installing one or another of those database programs to build the File
1530 daemon. With the above option, you simply enter {\bf make} and just the
1531 client will be built.
1534 \section{Auto Starting the Daemons}
1535 \index[general]{Daemons!Auto Starting the}
1536 \index[general]{Auto Starting the Daemons}
1538 If you wish the daemons to be automatically started and stopped when your
1539 system is booted (a good idea), one more step is necessary. First, the
1540 ./configure process must recognize your system -- that is it must be a
1541 supported platform and not {\bf unknown}, then you must install the platform
1542 dependent files by doing:
1547 make install-autostart
1551 Please note, that the auto-start feature is implemented only on systems
1552 that we officially support (currently, FreeBSD, Red Hat/Fedora Linux, and
1553 Solaris), and has only been fully tested on Fedora Linux.
1555 The {\bf make install-autostart} will cause the appropriate startup scripts
1556 to be installed with the necessary symbolic links. On Red Hat/Fedora Linux
1557 systems, these scripts reside in {\bf /etc/rc.d/init.d/bacula-dir} {\bf
1558 /etc/rc.d/init.d/bacula-fd}, and {\bf /etc/rc.d/init.d/bacula-sd}. However
1559 the exact location depends on what operating system you are using.
1561 If you only wish to install the File daemon, you may do so with:
1565 make install-autostart-fd
1569 \section{Other Make Notes}
1570 \index[general]{Notes!Other Make}
1571 \index[general]{Other Make Notes}
1573 To simply build a new executable in any directory, enter:
1581 To clean out all the objects and binaries (including the files named 1, 2, or
1582 3, which are development temporary files), enter:
1590 To really clean out everything for distribution, enter:
1598 note, this cleans out the Makefiles and is normally done from the top level
1599 directory to prepare for distribution of the source. To recover from this
1600 state, you must redo the {\bf ./configure} in the top level directory, since
1601 all the Makefiles will be deleted.
1603 To add a new file in a subdirectory, edit the Makefile.in in that directory,
1604 then simply do a {\bf make}. In most cases, the make will rebuild the Makefile
1605 from the new Makefile.in. In some case, you may need to issue the {\bf make} a
1606 second time. In extreme cases, cd to the top level directory and enter: {\bf
1609 To add dependencies:
1617 The {\bf make depend} appends the header file dependencies for each of the
1618 object files to Makefile and Makefile.in. This command should be done in each
1619 directory where you change the dependencies. Normally, it only needs to be run
1620 when you add or delete source or header files. {\bf make depend} is normally
1621 automatically invoked during the configuration process.
1631 This not normally done if you are developing Bacula, but is used if you are
1632 going to run it to backup your system.
1634 After doing a {\bf make install} the following files will be installed on your
1635 system (more or less). The exact files and location (directory) for each file
1636 depends on your {\bf ./configure} command (e.g. if you are using SQLite instead
1637 of MySQL, some of the files will be different).
1639 NOTE: it is quite probable that this list is out of date. But it is a
1661 create_mysql_database
1663 delete_catalog_backup
1682 \section{Installing Tray Monitor}
1683 \index[general]{Monitor!Installing Tray}
1684 \index[general]{Installing Tray Monitor}
1686 The Tray Monitor is already installed if you used the {\bf
1687 \verb:--:enable-tray-monitor} configure option and ran {\bf make install}.
1689 As you don't run your graphical environment as root (if you do, you should
1690 change that bad habit), don't forget to allow your user to read {\bf
1691 tray-monitor.conf}, and to execute {\bf bacula-tray-monitor} (this is not a
1694 Then log into your graphical environment (KDE, GNOME or something else), run
1695 {\bf bacula-tray-monitor} as your user, and see if a cassette icon appears
1696 somewhere on the screen, usually on the task bar.
1697 If it doesn't, follow the instructions below related to your environment or
1701 \index[general]{GNOME}
1703 System tray, or notification area if you use the GNOME terminology, has been
1704 supported in GNOME since version 2.2. To activate it, right-click on one of
1705 your panels, open the menu {\bf Add to this Panel}, then {\bf Utility} and
1706 finally click on {\bf Notification Area}.
1709 \index[general]{KDE}
1711 System tray has been supported in KDE since version 3.1. To activate it,
1712 right-click on one of your panels, open the menu {\bf Add}, then {\bf Applet}
1713 and finally click on {\bf System Tray}.
1715 \subsection{Other window managers}
1716 \index[general]{Managers!Other window}
1717 \index[general]{Other window managers}
1719 Read the documentation to know if the Freedesktop system tray standard is
1720 supported by your window manager, and if applicable, how to activate it.
1722 \section{Modifying the Bacula Configuration Files}
1723 \index[general]{Modifying the Bacula Configuration Files}
1724 \index[general]{Files!Modifying the Bacula Configuration}
1727 \ilink{Configuring Bacula}{ConfigureChapter} in this manual for
1728 instructions on how to set Bacula configuration files.