From: Kern S. <ke...@si...> - 2011-04-09 15:58:03
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On Tuesday 05 April 2011 04:06:57 acorn12 wrote: > I am trying to run bacula on a mixed LAN with some Win XP/Vista machines > and one Ubuntu 10.04 Server. > The server has the bacula 5.0.1 package installed, while on the Windows > XP machine I have bacula-win32-5.0.3.exe installed. > > After installing bacula on the XP machine, I copied the data from the > XP-fd.conf file to the Ubuntu machine bacula-director.conf file. > Next I start BAT on the XP machine, after a short delay, the status bar > says "connected to director', but then it tries to connect again and > after a much longer delay a dialog pops up saying "bat aborting due to > error in console/console.cpp:155 - Failed to connect to director for > populateLists." > > As far as I can tell the Ubuntu server is working well enough, though I > have concentrated more on the Windows machines, which are the ones I > really want to back up. > > As I am very new to bacula, I'm sure I am missing something, but have no > clue what or where to look. > > Any hints or pointers are most welcome. It sounds like you are mixing versions. Bat *must* be *exactly* the same version as the Director, otherwise, it is very unlikely to work. The protocol between Bat and the Director is constantly in evolution. Kern > > TIA |