Compiling bacula natively on the ReadyNAS

It works! Here's the Reader's Digest version:

apt-get install libc6-dev 
apt-get install libc6-dev 
apt-get install gcc 
apt-get install make autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb
apt-get install libtag1-dev 
apt-get install uuid-dev
apt-get install g++

wget http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir/198/h/source/v8.4.7/postgresql-8.4.7.tar.gz
tar zxf postgresql-8.4.7.tar.gz 
cd postgresql-8.4.7
./configure --without-readline --without-zlib
make install
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql --version
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/bacula/5.0.1/bacula-5.0.1.tar.gz/download
tar zxf bacula-5.0.1.tar.gz 
cd bacula-5.0.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bacula --with-postgresql=/usr/local/pgsql/ --build=sparc-linux && make install
/usr/local/bacula/sbin/bacula-sd --help  
tar zcf bacula-5.0.1-sparc.tgz /usr/local/bacula/
tar zcf postgresql-8.4.7-sparc.tgz /usr/local/pgsql/

Then I copied both of these tarballs of binaries over to a production ReadyNAS. It already had the bacula add-on installed, so I left that in place (so I could re-use the init script and config) and disabled it from running via Frontview. I changed to / and unpacked the tarballs, then tried manually running bacula-sd with the existing config. It worked!!!!

The big test was to then try a restore, since that was the bit I was trying to get working. I decided to try restoring a subset of a previous backup to a remote server. It worked. Flawlessly. I then proceeded outside and did a victory lap of my yard.

As a clean-up: I copied my original bacula-sd.conf to /etc/bacula, and modified the add-on-installed init script to run /usr/local/bacula/sbin/baculs-sd instead of /opt/rfw/sbin/bacula. I added exit 0 near the top of the installed bacula-dir and bacula-fd init scripts, just in case.

I also used update-rc.d to get the bacula-sd init script to start at boot, though... it didn't. Still puzzling over that one, but eh, I'll get there.

One minor nit: when you use the init script to stop bacula, it reports an error:

rm-nas-1:~# /etc/init.d/bacula-sd stop
Stopping Bacula Storage Daemon: start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 7948: No such process
start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 7946: No such process
bacula-sd

I think this is because killing one of the three running bacula-sd processes (old-school: uses multiple processes rather than threads, it would seem) causes the others to exit, and they're gone before the kill process can zap their process IDs. Not a problem, just caused me a few minutes' puzzlement.