2009/5/6 Amitsingh Pardesi <amitpard...@hotmail.com>: > > >> Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Configuring Director & Storage on different >> nodes >> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:50:49 +1000 >> From: james.har...@bendigoit.com.au >> To: amitpard...@hotmail.com; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I want to configure Director & Storage daemon of Bacula System 3.0.0 >> on two >> > different nodes (same Linux flavor, CentOS 5.2 to be precise). I have >> tried >> > with both Director & Storage on same machine. It works fine. Now I >> want to >> > move the storage daemon away from the Director. Is it possible to get >> the same >> > performance or are there any problems (not documented) that could >> occur. >> >> Performance should be the same. I do it on a Xen system where the sd is >> on Dom0 for performance reasons, but the director and the catalog is on >> a DomU for better flexibility (eg snapshot to test an upgrade etc). >> >> > >> > I have tried to configure it following the steps specified in the >> Users guide. >> > I am able to fetch the status of each storage daemon. But am not able >> to start >> > any job. While starting the job, it fails to connect to Storage Daemon >> & hence >> > could not get the volume details. When checked the staus of the >> storage >> > daemon, its status is "OK". >> > >> > Could some one please help me in configuring this scenario or give me >> any >> > pointer to look at. >> > >> >> When the backup occurs, the director tells the fd to connect to the sd, >> including telling the fd what the hostname of the sd is. It's this >> direct connection that gives you good performance even if the director >> is not on the same host as the sd. It sounds like the connection from >> the fd to the sd is not working. Can the fd ping the sd by the same name >> that the director uses? Do you have any firewalls in the way that might >> be blocking connections/ >> > All my nodes are in the same n/w domain. No firewall issue. > > I have defined 3 storage daemons which are on the same node. I can ping the > sd ip address from fd. > > I have been trying to start the Job from the webmin module of Bacula. I do > not get any error over there, but the page just hangs. When tried to execute > the command from "bconsole" CLI it said that, "Could not connect to Storage > Daemon" >
Probably an unsupported setup with webmin which is not part of bacula. Have you tried this with bconsole? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
