I've made some more progress with this, but  I have not quite made it through the guide to the "Client1" job explained the Chapter 9 of the manual.

The director's conf file contains the following resources that I can identify with Client1 (with comments omitted for brevity):


FileSet {
  Name = "Full Set"
  Include {
    Options {
      signature = MD5
    }
    File = /home/jonathan
  }
  Exclude {
    File = /proc
    File = /tmp
    File = /.journal
    File = /.fsck
  }
}

JobDefs {
  Name = "DefaultJob"
  Type = Backup
  Level = Incremental
  Client = Sonata-Ubuntu-fd
  FileSet = "Full Set"
  Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
  Storage = File
  Messages = Standard
  Pool = Default
  Priority = 10
}

Job {
  Name = "Client1"
  JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
  Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Client1.bsr"
}


...and the sd file contains this:


Device {
  Name = FileStorage
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /tmp #/home/bacula
  LabelMedia = no;       #yes                   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
  Random Access = Yes;
  AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it
  RemovableMedia = no;
  AlwaysOpen = no;
}


If I understand this correctly, it should back up the entire contents of my home directory to a file in /tmp, and Bacula will prompt me to enter a label (file name) for the set.

When I ran the job I got the following output:


*run
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
A job name must be specified.
The defined Job resources are:
     1: Client1
     2: BackupCatalog
     3: RestoreFiles
Select Job resource (1-3): 1
Run Backup job
JobName:  Client1
Level:    Incremental
Client:   Sonata-Ubuntu-fd
FileSet:  Full Set
Pool:     Default (From Job resource)
Storage:  File (From Job resource)
When:     2008-08-30 08:27:58
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): y
Job queued. JobId=5
30-Aug 08:28 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 5: No prior Full backup Job record found.
30-Aug 08:28 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 5: No prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup.
*
30-Aug 08:28 Sonata-Ubuntu-dir JobId 5: Start Backup JobId 5, Job=Client1.2008-08-30_08.28.06
*

Then, after considerable delay:


** (gedit:15893): WARNING **: Failed to create file '/root/.gnome2/gedit/gedit-print-settings.J2LQGU': No such file or directory
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


What's happening here?


I have a couple of other questions which I would like to resolve if I can.

First, the Bacula installation package did not give me copies of the startup scripts bacula, bacula-dir, etc.  Perhaps I can find them in the source package (or perhaps not, if they're built during the make).  Is there an easier way to get them?

Second, I'm puzzled by John Drescher's reply to my question about IP addresses, which seems to restate the background of the question rather than answer the question.  Again: if 127.0.0.1 and localhost are not acceptable addresses, how does a user identify his own computer if it does not have a static IP address or a domain name?  (It appears that I do have a static IP address, so this won't affect me, but it still bothers me.  If it can't be done that's a significant limitation, which does not seem to be mentioned anywhere.)

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