OK have a good laugh. As it turns out I did not have the bacula-sd / fd apps installed. When I installed Bacula: apt-get install bacula-mysql - I never thought that that command wouldn't install the daemons as well.

*stares at floor*

Matthias Reif wrote:

Eric Downing <ripeart AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 01/02/2010 01:52:31 PM:

> I'm starting a new thread with a more descriptive title than the
> previous. I apologize for allowing the last thread to get away from
> the subject.
>
> I've got Bacula up and running, I'm able to use bconsole. I have
> changed all the passwords in the -dir, -fd, -sd, and bconsole.conf
> to be the same throughout. In bacula-dir.conf file I have also
> changed the DirAddress from 127.0.0.1 to the IP of the box. FWIW I
> am ssh'ed into the bacula box (bedroom) and at this time I'm
> attempting to backup locally, so there are no firewalls to worry about.
>
> I receive an error in bconsole when trying to get status from the
> daemons, as below. I have checked that the services exist in
> /etc/services. Interestingly enough I don't find the daemons
> mentioned in netstat -aln or ps -A, however bacula-dir is there.  I
> have not actually tried to run a job yet. I would appreciate a firm
> slap in the right direction! Thanks in advance.
>
> Eric
>
> pad-dir Version: 2.4.4 (28 December 2008) i486-pc-linux-gnu debian 5.0
> Daemon started 31-Jan-10 21:18, 1 Job run since started.
>  Heap: heap=258,048 smbytes=26,263 max_bytes=27,045 bufs=152 max_bufs=160
>
> Scheduled Jobs:
> Level          Type     Pri  Scheduled          Name               Volume
> ===================================================================================
> Full           Backup    10  01-Feb-10 00:01    ThinkpadFull       *unknown*
> ====
>
> Running Jobs:
> No Jobs running.
> ====
> No Terminated Jobs.
> ====
> Connecting to Storage daemon iomega1tb at tpad:9103
>
> Failed to connect to Storage daemon iomega1tb.
> ====
> Connecting to Client tpad-fd at tpad:9102
> Failed to connect to Client tpad-fd.
> ====
> 31-Jan 21:41 tpad-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: bsock.c:129 Unable to
> connect to Storage daemon on tpad:9103. ERR=Connection refused
> 31-Jan 21:41 tpad-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: bsock.c:129 Unable to
> connect to Client: tpad-fd on tpad:9102. ERR=Connection refused

Doesn't seem to be a password issue, but the FD and SD are simply not listening on ports 9102 / 9103 which most likely means they are not running.

How do you start the SD and FD on your system?

The daemons may simply die on startup, so you may want to run them from the command line to get some clues from their STDOUT.

Depending on the location of your executables and config files, for example:

/usr/sbin/bacula-sd -u bacula -g disk -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf
/usr/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g bacula -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf

Thanks

Matthias




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