Bacula Backup question
 

Hi there,

I've just been getting Bacula Backup running on an old server (CentOS 6.10) and have finally been able to run the backup job from BConsole.

When I tried to run a test from Webmin, it got stuck on the

prompt with no way to tell it "yes".

I thought that running the job from Webmin would have not had such an issue.

I tried to google the answer but nothing was found indiciating how I could get over this issue.

Was it because it was the first run of a new backup job? Or is there something I need to enter into bacula-dir.conf to automatically say yes to such a question?

Thanks in advance,

Simon

For something like that, have you tried https://www.bacula.org/support/ ?
They do have free (email list) as well as Professional Support (I'd guess pay-for).

Hello mr_si,

Bacula is what I am using to back up 8 machines at home. I have to state clearly, I am not a bacula expert or guru. I've figured how to get it working and am getting my linux machines backed up. I have been working on computers since 1981, and, therefore, I am a command line junkie. Slackware is my distro of choice. I have one outlier, my router which runs ipfire. So, I run bconsole from the command line. I have the Storage Daemon running on one machine that has a 14 terabyte RAID 6 array; the Director runs on another machine; and, File Daemons run on all the Linux machines. Running bconsole from the command line gives direct access to responding to requests from the console utility. I run all my Linux machines at runlevel 3 (multiuser) (Slackware does not implement systemd). In the rare instances where I wish to run any X applications I with execute 'startx' from a command line.

Don't know if any of what I said will be helpful for you, but running bconsole from a command line is somewhat clunky but it will enable you to have better control of its operation.

Clark

hi all, I am using Redhat EL 8 and Install and condifure Bacula Server, when I run backup the following error show, please help me.
28-Jan 09:36 ins-dir JobId 0: Error: getmsg.c:209 Malformed message: Events: code=FC0002 daemon=khan-fd ref=0x172eeb8 type=connection source=ins-dir text=Director connection

28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: No prior Full backup Job record found.
28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: No prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup.
28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: Start Backup JobId 60, Job=WindowsBackup.2023-01-28_10.07.00_05
28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: Using Device "FileStorage" to write.
28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: Error: getmsg.c:209 Malformed message: Events: code=FC0002 daemon=khan-fd ref=0x172ebc8 type=connection source=ins-dir text=Director connection

28-Jan 10:07 khan-fd JobId 60: Fatal error: filed/hello.c:191 Bad caps from SD: auth cram-md5 <1125665456.1674882423@khan-sd> ssl=0
.
28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: Fatal error: Bad response to Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage
, got 2800 End Job TermCode=102 JobFiles=0 ReadBytes=0 JobBytes=0 Errors=1 VSS=1 Encrypt=0 CommBytes=74 CompressCommBytes=74

28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: Fatal error: No Job status returned from FD.
28-Jan 10:07 ins-dir JobId 60: Error: Bacula ins-dir 9.0.6 (20Nov17):
Build OS: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise 8.1
JobId: 60
Job: WindowsBackup.2023-01-28_10.07.00_05
Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental)
Client: "khan-fd" 11.0.6 (10Mar22) Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (build 9200), 64-bit,Cross-compile,Win64
FileSet: "Full Set" 2023-01-20 15:45:17
Pool: "File" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 28-Jan-2023 10:06:56
Start time: 28-Jan-2023 10:07:02
End time: 28-Jan-2023 10:07:07
Elapsed time: 5 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 0
SD Files Written: 0
FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B)
SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B)
Rate: 0.0 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: None
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s):
Volume Session Id: 1
Volume Session Time: 1674880152
Last Volume Bytes: 0 (0 B)
Non-fatal FD errors: 1
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: Error
SD termination status: Waiting on FD
Termination: *** Backup Error ***

Please help.
Thanks