Thank you, Josh, for your response. I ended up doing two things...
1) I changed the permissions on /mnt/sdb1 using I chmod 777 so everyone has
read/write/execute privilege. This seemed like overkill since I thought
that my problem was related to my labels and pools not being defined
properly. So, I did step 2.
2) I used the conf files for bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf as
described in Automated Disk Backup from the bacula manual to define my
pools.
I ran a test full backup for job, backupclient1, my default job, and it ran
successfully. What I found interesting is the permissions on the backup
file. Take a look...
root@cablemon sdb1/backups# ls -la
total 16736
drwxrwxrwx 2 root bacula 4096 Apr 2 10:39 .
drwxrwxrwx 5 root bacula 4096 Apr 2 10:38 ..
-rw-r----- 1 bacula tape 17127387 Apr 2 10:39 Full-0001
root@cablemon sdb1/backups#
I didn't even know that I had a group called tape. Here is that
group...note it has one member...bacula!
root@cablemon sdb1/backups# cat /etc/group | grep tape
tape:x:26:bacula
Thinking that permissions 777 were too open, I changed them back to 775 and
re-ran my backup job. It failed again. I checked the groups again and saw
that there was also a "disk" group with no members. I added bacula to that
group and re-ran my job. It failed. I then set my permissions back to 777
and ran my job. It succeeded.
So, even though "bacula" is a member of both "tape" and "disk", the backup
fails unless "othe"r has write permissions on /mnt/sdb1.
Obviously either I don't understand how permissions work or some other
account is writing to disk...so the other group must have write permission.
Well, at least the backups are working. the second backup was entitled;
Inc-002.
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