Bacula Backup - Building a File Daemon or Client

If you run the Director and the Storage daemon on one machine and you wish to back up another machine....

Install gcc & c++ compilers

yum install gcc gcc-c++

Download packages:

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/bacula/5.0.2/bacula-5.0.2.tar.gz/download
tar -xzvf bacula-5.0.2.tar.gz

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/depkgs/18Dec09/depkgs-18Dec09.tar.gz/download
tar -xzvf depkgs-18Dec09.tar.gz
mv depkgs bacula-5.0.2/

Compile it:

cd bacula-5.0.2/depkgs/
make
gmake mtx-install

cd ..

configure bacula

CFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
--sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin \
--with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
--with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
--enable-client-only \
--with-working-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin/working \
--with-dump-email=$USER

Install bacula

make install

How to start File daemon on start or add service

cd /root/bacula/bin

add content to file bacula

#! /bin/sh
# chkconfig: 2345 95 20
# description: Bacula Clien File Deamon
# processname: bacula

copy it to /etc/rc.d/init.d/

cp bacula /etc/rc.d/init.d/
chkconfig add bacula