2009/5/6 Amitsingh Pardesi <amitpardesi AT hotmail DOT com>:
>
>
>> Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Configuring Director & Storage on different
>> nodes
>> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:50:49 +1000
>> From: james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au
>> To: amitpardesi AT hotmail DOT com; bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 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

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