\begin{verbatim}
CFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
- --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
+ --sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/etc \
+ --with-pid-dir=/var/run \
+ --with-subsys-dir=/var/run \
--with-mysql \
- --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
+ --with-working-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
--with-dump-email=$USER
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
performs well and is suitable for small to medium sized installations (maximum
10-20 machines). However, we should note that a number of users have
had unexplained database corruption with SQLite. For that reason, we
-recommend that you install either MySQL or PostgreSQL for production
+recommend that you install either PostgreSQL or MySQL for production
work.
-If you wish to use MySQL as the Bacula catalog, please see the
-\ilink{Installing and Configuring MySQL}{MySqlChapter} chapter of
-this manual. You will need to install MySQL prior to continuing with the
+If you wish to use MySQL as the Bacula catalog, please see the
+\ilink{Installing and Configuring MySQL}{MySqlChapter} chapter of this
+manual. You will need to install MySQL prior to continuing with the
configuration of Bacula. MySQL is a high quality database that is very
-efficient and is suitable for any sized installation. It is slightly more
-complicated than SQLite to setup and administer because it has a number of
-sophisticated features such as userids and passwords. It runs as a separate
-process, is truly professional and can manage a database of any size.
-
-If you wish to use PostgreSQL as the Bacula catalog, please see the
-\ilink{Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL}{PostgreSqlChapter}
-chapter of this manual. You will need to install PostgreSQL prior to
-continuing with the configuration of Bacula. PostgreSQL is very similar to
-MySQL, though it tends to be slightly more SQL92 compliant and has many more
-advanced features such as transactions, stored procedures, and the such. It
-requires a certain knowledge to install and maintain.
+efficient and is suitable for small and medium sized installation (up to
+2,000,000 files per job). It is slightly more complicated than SQLite to setup
+and administer because it has a number of sophisticated features such as
+userids and passwords. It runs as a separate process, is truly professional and
+can manage a database of any size.
+
+If you wish to use PostgreSQL as the Bacula catalog, please see the
+\ilink{Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL}{PostgreSqlChapter} chapter of
+this manual. You will need to install PostgreSQL prior to continuing with the
+configuration of Bacula. PostgreSQL is very similar to MySQL, though it tends
+to be slightly more SQL92 compliant and has many more advanced features such as
+transactions, stored procedures, and the such. It requires a certain knowledge
+to install and maintain. PostgreSQL is suitable for any sized installation
+(some sites have much more than 1 billion objects in the Catalog). Bacula uses
+many optimized PostgreSQL functions, and can run more than 10 time faster on
+jobs having millions of files than MySQL (Specially in during restore, accurate
+mode, bvfs queries and when the database server is not on the same host than
+the Director). It's possible to switch from MySQL/SQLite to PostgreSQL, but it
+requires some DBA knowledge.
If you wish to use SQLite as the Bacula catalog, please see
\ilink{Installing and Configuring SQLite}{SqlLiteChapter} chapter of
This option is meant to allow you to direct where the architecture
independent files should be placed. However, we find this a somewhat
vague concept, and so we have not implemented this option other than
- what ./configure does by default. As a consequence, we suggest that
+ to use any explicit prefix that you may define. If you do not
+ explicitly specify a prefix, Bacula's configure routine will not use
+ the default value that ./configure --help prints.
+ As a consequence, we suggest that
you avoid it. We have provided options that allow you to explicitly
specify the directories for each of the major categories of installation
files.
\item [ {-}{\-}sysconfdir=\lt{}config-path\gt{}]
\index[general]{{-}{\-}sysconfdir}
Defines where the Bacula configuration files should be placed during a
- {\bf make install} command.
+ {\bf make install} command. Note, for security reasons,
+ this directory should be unique to Bacula and not read/writable by
+ any other user/group than Bacula is running under.
\item [ {-}{\-}mandir=\lt{}path\gt{}]
\index[general]{{-}{\-}mandir}
The working directory is not automatically created by the install process, so
you must ensure that it exists before using Bacula for the first time.
-\item [ {-}{\-}with-base-port=\lt{}port=number\gt{}]
- \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-base-port}
+\item [ {-}{\-}with-baseport=\lt{}port=number\gt{}]
+ \index[general]{{-}{\-}with-baseport}
In order to run, Bacula needs three TCP/IP ports (one for the Bacula
Console, one for the Storage daemon, and one for the File daemon). The {\bf
\verb:--:with-baseport} option will automatically assign three ports beginning at
\begin{verbatim}
./configure \
--enable-smartalloc \
- --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
- --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working
+ --sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/etc \
+ --with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-working-dir=/opt/bacula/working
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
\begin{verbatim}
CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure \
- --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
+ --sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/etc \
--enable-smartalloc \
--with-sqlite=$HOME/bacula/depkgs/sqlite \
- --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working \
- --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
+ --with-working-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
--enable-bat \
- --enable-conio
+ --enable-readline
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
\begin{verbatim}
CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure \
- --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
+ --sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/etc \
--enable-smartalloc \
- --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
- --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working
- --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working
- --enable-conio
+ --with-mysql \
+ --with-working-dir=/opt/bacula/working
+ --with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=/opt/bacula/working
+ --enable-readline
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
-or finally, a completely traditional Red Hat Linux install:
+or finally, a completely traditional Red Hat Linux install,
+which we do not recommend, because it make it harder to
+backup Bacula for disaster recovery purposes:
\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
--with-mysql \
--with-working-dir=/var/bacula \
--with-pid-dir=/var/run \
- --enable-conio
+ --enable-readline
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
\begin{verbatim}
#!/bin/sh
CFLAGS="-g" ./configure \
- --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
- --with-mysql=$HOME/mysql \
+ --sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
+ --sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/etc \
+ --with-mysql \
--enable-smartalloc \
- --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
- --with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/working
+ --with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-subsys-dir=/opt/bacula/working \
+ --with-working-dir=/opt/bacula/working
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
-As mentioned above, the install process will create the sbindir and sysconfdir
-if they do not exist, but it will not automatically create the pid-dir,
-subsys-dir, or working-dir, so you must ensure that they exist before running
-Bacula for the first time.
-
Note, you may need to install the following packages to build Bacula
from source:
\footnotesize
SUNWlibgcrypt
SUNWzlib
SUNWzlibs
+SUNWreadline
SUNWbinutilsS
SUNWGmakeS
SUNWlibm
\index[general]{One Files Configure Script}
The following script could be used if you want to put everything
-in a single file:
+in a single directory (except for the working directory):
\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
--mandir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
--enable-smartalloc \
--enable-bat \
- --enable-bwx-console \
- --enable-tray-monitor \
--with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
--with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
--with-mysql \
right-click on one of your panels, open the menu {\bf Add}, then {\bf Applet}
and finally click on {\bf System Tray}.
-\subsection{Other window managers}
+\subsection{Other Window Managers}
\index[general]{Managers!Other window}
\index[general]{Other window managers}
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