-As you will note, I don't follow the standard GNU release
-numbering conventions, but rather one that I started in
-1970. My internal releases were 0.nn, the first release to
-another user was 1.0, each modified source code release then
-gets a new minor release (1.1, ...) as well as a date. Each
-major change in the software -- e.g. new tape format will
-normally have the major release number incremented.
-
-Your best bet for getting Bacula up and running is to read
-the manual, which can be found in
-<bacula-main-directory>/doc/html-manual, or in
-<bacula-main-directory>/doc/bacula.pdf.
+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:
-CFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
- ./configure \
- --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --enable-gnome \
- --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
- --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-dump-email=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS \
- --with-job-email=YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS \
- --with-smtp-host=YOUR_SMTP_SERVER_ADDRESS \
- --with-baseport=9101
+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
+Build Bacula:
make
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.