Thanks everyone. The permission denied error below started to occur when I followed the instruction and cleaned up the bacula.sql file.
12-Jan 05:39 babar-dir JobId 1639: shell command: run BeforeJob "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"
12-Jan 05:39 babar-dir JobId 1639: BeforeJob: sh: cannot create /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql: Permission denied
12-Jan 05:39 babar-dir JobId 1639: Error: Runscript: BeforeJob returned non-zero status=2. ERR=Child exited with code 2
12-Jan 05:39 babar-dir JobId 1639: Error: Bacula babar-dir 5.0.1 (24Feb10): 12-Jan-2012 05:39:13
How can I test and find out what's wrong here? When I had shut down the backup server, everything was fine. Looks like something is holiding up the servers until 8 AM or so, just can't tell what that is.
> From: bwalton AT artsci.utoronto DOT ca
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:33:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long
>
> Excerpts from Martin Simmons's message of Thu Jan 12 10:25:02 -0500 2012:
>
> > > The mail server's name is Gauss and although I have it setup babar
> > > (name of the backup server where has bacula installed) to start at
> > > 20:05 every night, the mail server will not be accessible until
> > > 8:15 AM and by that I mean people at work cannot get their
> > > messages or send messages because the server is not responding.
> >
> > This is very unlikely to be caused by Bacula.
>
> Agreed, but if there are, say, network issues, bacula could exacerbate
> a problem that flies under the radar during normal operation. I'd be
> checking the network settings on every device from the NIC to the
> backup server and running some performance tools while bacula is not
> active to see if you experience the same degradation.
>
> HTH
> -Ben
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