A small update:

I realised that tha viper-fd password complaint was related to the viper-fd 
password which was set up in bacula-dir.conf. I change that this morning, 
cleared out the db, and tried running the job again from bconsole.

We have now gotten rid of the auth error, but it does not seem to have solved 
the problem. This makes some sense, in that I had thought that viper-fd would 
only come into play if we were backing up something on the bacula server itself 
(viper), and we're not. we're backing up some files on scorpion, so scorpion-fd 
would have been the only fd we need to worry about.... does that sound sensible?

so, I'm still left with the same issue. the job says it's running, but it 
doesn't appear to be doing anything - is the:

Device status:
Device "FileStorage" (/backups/bacula) is not open.

the key? The /backups/bacula directory is completely empty!

Thanks

update status all:



*status all
viper-dir Version: 5.0.3 (30 August 2010) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
Daemon started 25-Feb-11 09:40, 0 Jobs run since started.
 Heap: heap=253,952 smbytes=107,542 max_bytes=120,530 bufs=347 max_bufs=355

Scheduled Jobs:
Level          Type     Pri  Scheduled          Name               Volume
===================================================================================
Incremental    Backup    10  25-Feb-11 23:05    BackupClient1      *unknown*
Full           Backup    11  25-Feb-11 23:10    BackupCatalog      *unknown*
====

Running Jobs:
Console connected at 25-Feb-11 09:40
Console connected at 25-Feb-11 09:41
Console connected at 25-Feb-11 09:41
 JobId Level   Name                       Status
======================================================================
     1 Full    scorpiontest.2011-02-25_09.40.43_03 is waiting for Client 
scorpion-fd to connect to Storage File
====
No Terminated Jobs.
====
Connecting to Storage daemon File at viper.oleo.co.uk:9103

viper-sd Version: 5.0.3 (30 August 2010) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
Daemon started 25-Feb-11 09:40. Jobs: run=0, running=0.
 Heap: heap=118,784 smbytes=97,978 max_bytes=98,172 bufs=96 max_bufs=98
Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=8 int32_t=4 int64_t=8

Running Jobs:
Backup Job scorpiontest.2011-02-25_09.40.43_03 waiting for Client connection.
Writing: Full Backup job scorpiontest JobId=1 Volume="Fullwinsvr010001"
    pool="Fullwinsvr01" device="FileStorage" (/backups/bacula)
    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
    FDSocket closed
====

Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
====

Terminated Jobs:
====

Device status:
Device "FileStorage" (/backups/bacula) is not open.
====

Used Volume status:
Fullwinsvr010001 on device "FileStorage" (/backups/bacula)
    Reader=0 writers=0 devres=1 volinuse=1
====

====

Connecting to Client viper-fd at viper:9102

viper-fd Version: 5.0.3 (30 August 2010)  x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
Daemon started 25-Feb-11 09:40. Jobs: run=0 running=0.
 Heap: heap=0 smbytes=19,757 max_bytes=19,904 bufs=53 max_bufs=54
 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=8 debug=0 trace=0

Running Jobs:
Director connected at: 25-Feb-11 10:03
No Jobs running.
====

Terminated Jobs:
====
Connecting to Client scorpion-fd at scorpion.oleo.co.uk:9102

scorpion-fd Version: 5.0.3 (04 August 2010)  VSS Linux Cross-compile Win64
Daemon started 24-Feb-11 15:02. Jobs: run=0 running=0.
 Heap: heap=0 smbytes=25,902 max_bytes=26,049 bufs=94 max_bufs=95
 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=8 debug=0 trace=1

Running Jobs:
JobId 1 Job scorpiontest.2011-02-25_09.40.43_03 is running.
    Full System or Console Job started: 25-Feb-11 09:40
    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0 Errors=0
    Files Examined=0
    SDSocket closed.
Director connected at: 25-Feb-11 10:03
====

Terminated Jobs:
 JobId  Level    Files      Bytes   Status   Finished        Name
======================================================================
    12  Full          0         0   Error    24-Feb-11 09:18 scorpion-fd
    13  Full          0         0   Error    24-Feb-11 09:34 scorpion-fd
    14  Full          0         0   OK       24-Feb-11 09:39 scorpion-fd
    15  Full         11    2.040 G  Error    24-Feb-11 09:47 scorpion-fd
====

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