Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of remote PC "hangs" but no error message

[Luis H. F. <lui...@gm...>]

What is returned when you enter bconsole and type status client
<your-laptop>? When you start the job, type 'status dir' in your bconsole
and post the status of the job.

2012/6/27 AndyW <bac...@ba...>

> I have got Bacula happily backing up /home directories, MySQL databases
> (MythTV DB) and the Bacula catalog itself on our main PC to SLR7 tape.
>
> I now want to backup /home directories on a laptop on our home LAN as
> well.  I have installed and configured bacula-fd on the laptop.  The laptop
> firewall has "Bacula Client" (port 9102) open and the main PC has ports
> 9101-3 open.  I can see remote client status fine in Bacula console.  I
> have created a remote backup job - the bootstrap .bsr file exists and has
> correct ownership and permissions.
>
> When I run the job it starts but nothing happens on either the remote
> laptop or the main PC (where the Bacula Director and backup storage devices
> are).  There is no sign of any disk or network activity on either system,
> and no error messages in syslog or other log files, or in the Bacula log.
>  The job just sits there with "Job Bytes" at zero, with nothing happening
> but no sign of any error message.  Same happens with backup to file, so not
> related to the tape device.  The remote laptop fileset is defined in the
> Director config - the file paths don't specify host, so I assume they are
> interpreted in the context of the remote bacula-fd.  Is this correct?
>
> Anyone have any ideas what I should do / check?  I am sure it is something
> very obvious...
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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