On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Frandin, Dave <Dave.Frandin AT nv.doe DOT gov> 
wrote:
> Hello List!
>
> I'm new to Bacula, we have set up a system to serve as an
> evaluation/test Bacula server (director, storage, file daemons, Bacula
> 5.0.1, on CentOS5.4, with a spare SCSI DLT drive). I built the server
> from source using the "Traditional Redhat Linux install" specs shown in
> the user manual. The director talks to the local file/storage daemons
> fine, btape was happy with my tape drive, several test jobs were run
> using the FD on the test machine ok. Now my boss wants me to test on one
> of our production machines with just the FD installed there. I've done
> this, and the director connects to the FD on the production machine fine
> when I do a "status" from bconsole, I can do an "estimate" of the small
> test job I've set up, and bconsole's "estimate" shows the amount of data
> I would expect to see, however... when I try to run the job that I just
> did the estimate on, the job hangs for 30 min and 1 sec, showing 0 FD
> files written, 0 SD files written, no SD errors, but shows an FD
> termination status of "Error" and SD termination status "Waiting on FD",
> and Termination "*** Backup Error ***". We are evaluating Bacula to
> replace the current Symantec BackupExec/RALUS that we currently use..
>
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated..
>

If you have localhost or 127.0.0.1 in any address for any of the
bacula configuration files remove that. Also is there a firewall that
prevents the FD from initiating a connection to the SD?

John

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