From: John D. <dre...@gm...> - 2011-01-31 14:54:16
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:26 AM, hymie! <hy...@la...> wrote: > > John Drescher writes: >>On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, hymie! <hy...@la...> wrot= >>e: >>> >>> Short question -- can a running Bacula Console dump out what it thinks >>> my configuration is? > >>I am confused at the question. I mean you should have edited the >>configuration. And it is a simple text file. If you do not know what >>it is how on earth did you setup bacula? > > Since you bring it up, it was set up by a former co-worker. It apparantly > worked for a while, stopped in December 2009, and now I have to get it > running again. So no, I didn't edit the configuration. > > I currently have 3 instances of Bacula running on various machines / > network / locations. I set one of them up myself and it is working > correctly. The other 2 I inherited from a former co-worker; 1 works fine, > the other is acting just a little strange. I'm guessing the most likely > reason is that there is a mistake in the config file, perhaps a missing > equal sign or mismatched curly-brackets. I've checked the config > file and it looks fine to me, but it wouldn't be the first time I couldn't > find my own mistake. > > /usr/sbin/bacula-dir -t shows no errors, so I need something more. > Then there is no errors in the config file. > So if Bacula can tell me, in full excruciating detail, "This is how I think > the GP01-Backup job is configured" then I can compare it to how I wanted > the backup to be configured, and hopefully find and fix the mistake. > The main config file is /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf look at this. And also explain exactly what it is doing that you do not think it should be doing along with posting this file. John |