Had to find out a solution for a company who is requesting for a cheap backup solution for their office.

ok here is what i did. I am running on ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I have installed bacula and webmin together in my system and i am using webmin to configure and administrate my bacula.

Install bacula using apt-get command (in root / sudo su):

#apt-get install bacula-sd-mysql

this will install bacula files and bacula base on mysql and not sqlite. take note of the bacula mysql user and password as you will need this in your webmin later.

You can install webmin at www.webmin.com . Just download the deb file and use the command below. Normally it resolve its on dependancy

#cd /tmp
#wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webad...webmin_1.510_all.deb
#dpkg -i webmin_1.510_all.deb
#apt-get install -f

Now go to your webmin panel - https://localhost:10000
Enter you server's admin user id and password

Left menu has a "System -> Bacula Backup"
then go to "module config"

change the portion which mention database type. Change it to mysql and enter the mysql password that you have set during your bacula setup.

You should be up and running by now. =P I have still yet to explore the bacula functionalities and so on coz i have not fully implement it yet on at work. Maybe we can further share the progress with each other in the future =)

cheers!