Your best bet to get Bacula compiled and running is to read the online manual at: http://www.bacula.org You will save yourself a lot of pain if you read the manual -- it is online at the above site. Barring reading the manual, you might try the following: To Configure it: CFLAGS="-g -O2" \ ./configure \ --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \ --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \ --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \ --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \ --enable-smartalloc \ --with-mysql \ --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \ --with-dump-email=your@address.com \ --with-job-email=your@address.com \ --with-smtp-host=localhost Build Bacula: make If you are doing a port, there should be no errors. The most likely source of errors will probably come in the src/stored directory in time.c or dev.c. There may also be problems in lib/signal.c as I currently pull in all Linux signals, some of which may not be available on your system. To create the database: src/cats/make_bacula_tables To install: make install To start it: cd $HOME/bacula/bin ./bacula start To start it (as a developer). This is not appropriate if you are installing Bacula. ./startit ./console To stop it: ./stopit Well, it is all just a bit more complicated than that, but you should have the idea. Be sure you read the chapter about testing your tape drive! Don't waste a lot of time setting up and running Bacula, if your drive is not supported. FreeBSD users, pay special attention to the Device configuration parameters needed to deal with FreeBSD tape drivers. License: Please see the file LICENSE for the terms of the license.