Ping?  No suggestions? Should I report this to a different group or 
submit a bug report?

     Marc.


On 4/22/2013 12:00 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> This may be a Linux (openSuSE) distro error, but not knowing the
> internals of how Bacula gets configured, I thought I would ask my
> question here first.
>
> I get Bacula from the openSuSE (12.3) repositories, and as such I do not
> have to compile/install Bacula from source, theoretically. The
> repository contains what are called meta packages for Bacula, which
> select from a set of other Bacula packages that have been pre-configured
> for whatever database type one wishes to use. I chose the one for usage
> with MySQL.
>
> The installation with fine, I set up MySQL with out any problem, and
> everything checked out OK. However, when I started up the Bacula
> daemons, and it tried to do it's first backup, I encountered an error
> when it tried to create a backup of the catalog itself and got an error
> message reporting that there was no such file or directory called pg_dump.
>
> I tracked this error  to the shell script file - make_catalog_backup -
> where I discovered that pg_dump is a file that is to be used when using
> PostgreSQL. I also learned that this script expects the name of the
> database type to be passed in as the 5th parameter, and if it does not
> recognize the database type, it was defaulting to using PostgreSQL. I
> hacked this script and changed the default database type to mysql and
> that worked!
>
> Note: the backups of various other computers on my network is proceeding
> fine also, so I believe I have installed Bacula correctly.
>
> So for my questions -
>
> 1. Shouldn't the default databases type in this script have been set to
> mysql when the openSuSE developers set up Bacula for distribution? I
> presume they built it with the .configure parameter set to mysql for the
> MySQL meta package that I installed.
>
> 2. My second question is a bit more nuanced. OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer
> supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed to
> be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim). I do not know where or
> how the make_catalog_backup script is called from, so I don't know what
> got passed in as the 5th parameter specifying the database type, (I
> could investigate further if necessary) but I wonder if this changeover
> to using MariaDB instead of MySQL might have confused things?
>
> 3. Is this a bug that should be reported to the Bacula developers, or to
> the OpenSuSE distro/packaging team?
>
> Thanks in advance for any info/advice offered....     Marc..
>
>
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