Install Bacula under Ubuntu 12.04

References

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/bacula.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bacula

Install Director

1. apt-get install bacula
2. set password for MySQL root user
3. choose "Yes" to configure database for bacula-director-mysql with dbconfig-common
4. provide root password (just entered) and another password for bacula-director-mysql
5. an error will occur - "ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)" (it seems that mysql not started)
6. choose "ignore", and complete install
7. make sure MySQL is up and running (see MySQL)
8. redo the configuration: dpkg-reconfigure bacula-director-mysql
9. check /var/log/dbconfig-common/dbc.log and find the following lines to be sure of success:

granting access to database bacula for bacula@localhost: success.

verifying access for bacula@localhost: success.

creating database bacula: success.

verifying database bacula exists: success.

populating database via sql...  done.