Bacula 13 Installation on Linux - CentOS 8/Redhat 8/Oracle Linux 8/Rocky Linux 8

Bacula 13 Install

REF: Verify Download URL from: https://www.bacula.org/source-download-center/

Current Download URL for Bacula 13: https://www.bacula.org/download/11146/

Linux dependencies installation. 

At this point I considered you have installed Linux already with static network configurations. I have installed Oracle Linux 8. 

IMP: Make sure selinux is disabled

setenforce 0

sudo sed -i "s/enforcing/disabled/g" /etc/selinux/config

sudo sed -i "s/enforcing/disabled/g" /etc/sysconfig/selinux

yum -y install make gcc-c++ readline-devel zlib-devel lzo-devel libacl-devel mt-st mtx postfix openssl-devel mysql-devel

#******Installing bacula 13 from source code.*******#

URL FOR SOURCE CODE: https://www.bacula.org/download/11146/

wget -qO- https://www.bacula.org/download/11146/ | tar -xzvf - -C /usr/src

yum -y install make gcc-c++ zlib-devel lzo-devel libacl-devel openssl-devel

cd /usr/src/bacula*

./configure --with-readline=/usr/include/readline --disable-conio --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula/scripts --with-working-dir=/var/lib/bacula --with-logdir=/var/log --enable-smartalloc --with-mysql --with-archivedir=/mnt/backup --with-job-email=your@email.com.br --with-hostname=ip_or_qualified_name

make -j8 && make install && make install-autostart

#PATHS TO MYSQL SCRIPTS IF INSTALLED USING YUM - Not recommended

chmod o+rx /usr/libexec/bacula/*

/usr/libexec/bacula/create_mysql_database -u root -p 

/usr/libexec/bacula/make_mysql_tables -u root -p 

/usr/libexec/bacula/grant_mysql_privileges -u root -p

#PATHS TO MYSQL SCRIPTS IF INSTALLED USING SOURCE CODE

# MySQL:

chmod o+rx /etc/bacula/scripts/*

/etc/bacula/scripts/create_mysql_database -u root -p  

/etc/bacula/scripts/make_mysql_tables -u root -p 

/etc/bacula/scripts/grant_mysql_privileges -u root -p

#Create bacula user for bacula-database access & grant database all permissions.

CREATE USER 'bacula'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'P@ssw0rd';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bacula.* TO 'bacula'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

#Make sure bacula system user is created. if not created create one

adduser bacula

passwd bacula

#Set bacula mysql user/password in /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf

Catalog {

  Name = MyCatalog

  dbname = "bacula"; dbuser = "bacula"; dbpassword = "P@ssw0rd"

}

Check and start bacula services

systemctl start bacula-dir

systemctl start bacula-sd

systemctl start bacula-fd

systemctl status bacula-dir;

systemctl status bacula-sd;

systemctl status bacula-fd;

systemctl enable bacula-dir

systemctl enable bacula-sd

systemctl enable bacula-fd

...Done...

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