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