Myles, Just a brief note: Bacula uses "virtual tape" volumes, which are files that bacula mounts internally and writes backup data to. If a given volume is unreachable/unusable/full/etc bacula will attempt to create another similar volume in the designated location.
Again, the volume will be a file, which will contain the files Bacula has backed up. Bacula volumes are written to using Bacula's own format. In the event of a disaster (loss of your bacula catalog database), you can use the bacula bscan tool to scan the volume(s) (or tapes if you use actual magnetic media tape), which will rebuild a catalog database. Are you sure bacula has write permissions for the destination directory, and are you sure bacula is using the user you think it is? I haven't heard of a bacula director and storage daemon using different user credentials before. Doesn't mean it won't supported, but I haven't heard of that. What happens when you temporarily set the target directory to be accessible by any user? (chmod -R 777 /mnt/my_backups) Does the find command + grep locate any of the volume names given by bacula? (find /|grep -i volume name here) Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 2:29 PM MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Bill. > > First of all, Bacula seems to be looking for a different volume name > every time, Vol-0014 doesn't match any folder I created (and the storage > space, minus a few boilerplate files and directories, was empty > initially as I would expect a newly configured cloud storage service to > be). I'm not quite understanding where Vol-0014 and other similarly > named volumes are coming from. All I know is that I have a curlftpfs > based userspace mounting daemon running that presents remote storage > using a familiar file-system-based integration and that I'm trying to > point Bacula to back up into it. > > I originally created the local directory /mnt/my_backup as a directory > owned by backupuser:backupuser and then under user backupuser I mounted > my curlftpfs remote storage space under that directory. > > Only backupuser has the rights to read from and write to this directory. > > As shown in my gist copied again below, I'm only running the Director > under the bacula username. > > I'm running the SD and FD processes under the backupuser username > because that's the username I gave sole permission to access the storage > mount. > > I also added more detail to the gist link to try to address some of your > questions : > > https://gist.github.com/mdear/99ed7d56fd5611216ce08ecff6244c8b > > More help is needed and help already given is much appreciated, > > Thanks, > > <Myles> > > > On 2023-11-27 7:18 p.m., Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: > > On 11/27/23 15:26, MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users wrote: > >> Hello, Bacula experts. > >> > >> My cloud provider offers only curlftpfs based storage, which I have > enabled and secured. I created a username “backupuser” > >> and a system service that launches the service, effectively mounting > the remote storage to /mnt/my_backup and running the > >> userspace curlftpfs command as the user “backupuser”. This user has > demonstrable read/write privileges in the file system as > >> expected. So far so good. > >> > >> I installed bacula on my Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS server and got bacula-dir, > bacula-fd, and bacula-sd all running. > >> > >> In summary, when I try to run my backup job I get an error: > >> > >> Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume > >> > >> ChatGPT4 doesn’t know nearly as much as this august body, I’m hoping a > kindly member may be able to give me a hand up. > >> > >> > >> More details: > https://gist.github.com/mdear/99ed7d56fd5611216ce08ecff6244c8b > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> <Myles> > > > > What does this show?: > > > > # ls -la /mnt/my_backup/backup/bacula/archive > > > > > > Is there a Bacula File volume named `Vol-0014` in there? > > Is it rw for the `bacula` user which the SD (normally) runs as? > > > > If it is not there, but you know where it is, them you must move it > there, and set the ownership to `bacula:disk` and the > > permissions to allow the bacula user to, well... Read and write to it. :) > > > > It is just a guess, but is it possible that this Bacula file volume > lives under a directory which you mounted > > `/mnt/khapbackup/backup/bacula/archive` on top of, so it exists, but is > not visible currently? This is just a guess, but it > > is also a common mistake. :) > > > > If you truly do not know where this Bacula file volume is, then you need > to delete it from the catalog so the director no > > longer thinks it is accessible: > > > > * delete yes volume=Vol-0014 > > > > Might want to run the bconsole `query` command and select option 14 to > be sure there are no jobs on it that you might need. > > > > Once deleted from the catalog, the Director should select a new volume > (or create a new one if `LabelFormat = yes` is set in > > the Pool `File` and `LabelMedia = yes` is set in the SD's Drive devices > writing to this directory. > > > > Alternately, you can just disable the volume in the catalog: > > > > * update volume=Vol-0014 volstatus=Disabled > > > > > > Also, consider that the ownership and permissions that you set on the > mount point for the user `backupuser` will not allow > > the SD running as the user `bacula` to read/write there - unless you dis > something like make the bacula user a member of the > > backupuser's group, and you gave the group read/write permissions into > that directory tree. > > > > > > Hope this helps! > > Bill > > > > -- > > Bill Arlofski > > w...@protonmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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