This page describes the installation of Bacula 7 on CentOS 7 using a MariaDB backend.

According to the change log, you can use the older file daemons from the standard repository: “Older File Daemons should be compatible with the 7.0.0 Director and Storage daemons. There should be no need to upgrade older File Daemons.”

• See: centos7_installation.
• Configure mail.

• Install development tools and preqrequisites:

  yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
  
  yum install ncurses-devel readline-devel qt qt-devel lzo-devel dejavu-*
  
  export PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/:$PATH

• Install MariaDB:

  yum install mariadb-server mariadb-devel

• Enable and start MariaDB:

  systemctl enable mariadb.service
  systemctl start mariadb.service

• Set root password for MariaDB:

  /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
  /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h <your fqdn> password 'new-password'

• Create bacula users and groups, fd needs to run as root, so no group and user needed:

  groupadd -g 1999 bacula
  useradd -c "Bacula Director" -u 2000 -g 1999 -M -N -s /sbin/nologin bacula-dir
  useradd -c "Bacula Storage daemon" -u 2001 -g 1999 -M -N -s /sbin/nologin bacula-sd

• Download latest version from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/bacula/
• Extract bacula-7.0.5.tar.gz
• Run configure:

  CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall" \
  ./configure \
  --prefix=/opt/bacula \
  --with-scriptdir=/opt/bacula/scripts \
  --with-logdir=/opt/bacula/log \
  --mandir=/usr/local/share/man \
  --enable-smartalloc \
  --with-mysql \
  --with-dump-email=youremail@domain \
  --with-job-email=youremail@domain \
  --with-smtp-host=mail.server \
  --with-dir-user=bacula-dir \
  --with-dir-group=bacula \
  --with-sd-user=bacula-sd \
  --with-sd-group=bacula \
  --with-systemd \
  --enable-bat \
  --enable-lzo \
  --disable-conio \
  --enable-readline \

• Complile Bacula:

  make

• Install as root:

  make install

• It seemd the log dir was not created, so create it manually:

  mkdir /opt/bacula/log
  chmod g+w /opt/bacula/log

• Change group rights:

  chgrp -R bacula /opt/bacula

• Create database:

  /opt/bacula/scripts/create_bacula_database -u root -p

• Create database tables:

  /opt/bacula/scripts/make_bacula_tables -u root -p

• Grand privileges:

  /opt/bacula/scripts/grant_bacula_privileges -u root -p

• Open firewall ports for director and storage daemon access.

Helpful documentation:

• http://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackupDesign.pdf
• http://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf

• Manual start of Bacula:

  /opt/bacula/sbin/bacula start