Hello, I have been successfully using bacula from the Debian Linux stable
release (version 1.38.11), and when I upgraded my kernel,
I decided to upgrade to bacula 2.0.3 (from Debian testing using apt). I had
serious difficulties getting any backups to work, aside
from backing up from the client fd running on the localhost. The other
machines are Win XP running 2.0.3, which they were running
before the upgrade. I copied over the conf files for the director, sd and fd
on the linux server that were working previously, and have
changed all of the passwords to as they were previously. I had configured
the firewalls on the XP machines to open ports 9101-9103
for use by bacula, and likewise had opened these ports on my linux server as
well. I was getting the communication problem that I
have seen others have when trying to connect to the SD over the network,
where the fd cannot connect to the sd, and the error is
as follows:
21-Apr 18:21 Linux-dir: Start Backup JobId 15,
Job=HP_Notebook-MyDocs.2007-04-21_18.21.06
21-Apr 18:21 hp_notebook-fd: HP_Notebook-MyDocs.2007-04-21_18.21.06 Warning:
../../lib/bnet.c:864 Could not connect to Storage daemon on Linux:9103.
ERR=No error
Retrying ...
*
No amount of retrying would allow any of the networked boxes to be backed
up.
I went through lots of debugging, and finally found using netstat that the
storage daemon was listening on 127.0.0.1, which would only allow
connections within the localhost.
The other 2 daemons, the director and fd, were listening for network
connections, indicated by 0.0.0.0
I decided in the director .conf file to specify in the storage section
(instructed to "Use a fully qualified name" ) simply the IP address (eg
192.168.0.105) for each fd.
In the bacula-sd.conf file, in the "definition of myself" section, I added
the line:
SDAddress = 0.0.0.0
which changed the storage daemon from listening on localhost (127.0.0.1) and
instead listens on the network (0.0.0.0), and now my backups are working
like a charm.
I doubt this qualifies as a "bug", but I wanted to post this in case it
helps others, or in case it allows for a clarification of something that
does need changing in the code.
I found no other way to adjust the conf files that worked for my setup. I'm
glad I figured it out before I decided to uninstall and go back to the old
version!
Jeff K
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