{"id":249,"date":"2012-06-28T22:58:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-06-28T22:58:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:58:07","slug":"the-minor-curse-of-bacula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"The (Minor) Curse of Bacula…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bacula<\/em><\/strong> is great for Linux – to – LTO tape backups, but the YUM updates can – at least on my system – sometimes leave it in an unusable state..<\/p>\n

For some reason, the update tends to leave the libraries in \/usr\/lib64 in a mess, with some pointing to postgresql instead of mysql, and some still in place from the ‘old’ version…\u00a0\u00a0 A massive clue is when you see postgresql-related errors, when in fact you have Bacula configured to use MySql!<\/p>\n

Running bacula-dir<\/strong> from the command line, in ‘foreground’ mode with the appropriate debug parameters, helps to track down the actual cause of the errors..<\/p>\n

For Bacula with MySql, on an x86_64 system, the appropriate libraries – in \/usr\/lib64 – should look like this:<\/p>\n

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25 Jun 28 23:28 libbaccats-5.2.8.so -> libbaccats-mysql-5.2.8.so
\n-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root\u00a0\u00a0 928 Jun 11 10:41 libbaccats.la
\n-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26984 Jun 11 10:41 libbaccats-mysql-5.2.8.so
\n-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root\u00a0\u00a0 997 Jun 11 10:41 libbaccats-mysql.la
\nlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25 Jun 13 14:04 libbaccats-mysql.so -> libbaccats-mysql-5.2.8.so<\/address>\n
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Bacula Webmin Module<\/p><\/div>\n

– and then bacula-dir<\/strong> should run OK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bacula is great for Linux – to – LTO tape backups, but the YUM updates can – at least on my system – sometimes leave it in an unusable state.. For some reason, the update tends to leave the libraries in \/usr\/lib64 in a mess, with some pointing to postgresql instead of mysql, and some still in …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,17,20],"tags":[96,145,154,161,241,242,250,379,431],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bacula","category-fedora","category-lto","category-performance-2","tag-bacula-2","tag-errors","tag-fedora-2","tag-fix","tag-libraries","tag-linux","tag-lto-2","tag-update","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}