Re: [Bacula-users] spool directory

[Bill A. <wa...@pr...>]

On 5/29/25 3:02 PM, Alan Polinsky wrote:
> I've been running Bacula 9.6.7 for many years with an attached LTO3 tape drive. The machine hosting Bacula is an old Dell 
> Optiplex. Though I am always in Slackware, there is a small 250 gig drive that had Windows 10 installed on it, even though It 
> was never booted in that operating system. With the prospective of Microsoft abandoning Windows 10, I decided to reformat 
> that disc as ext4 and attached it to /bacula. The directive in /etc/fstab is  /dev/sda1        /bacula        ext4        
> defaults 0    0.
> 
> I created a directory under that called working and changed ownership to bacula:bacula. In the bacula-sd.conf file I added:
> 
>      Spool Directory /bacula/working
> 
> 
> I have changed no other directives in the two remaining conf files. I get the following error
> 
> 
> Fatal error: bsockcore.c:208 Un
> able to connect to Storage daemon on slackware151.polinsky.home:9103. ERR=Connection
> refused
> 
> The added disc is sda, Slackware is on sdb. What do I have to additionally change to allow the spool file to use sda?
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Alan

Hello Alan,

This looks to me like the SD is not starting/running on `slackware151.polinsky.home`

On that system what does this show:

# netstat -tlpn | grep 9103

I suspect a missing permission, or wrong ownership further up the /opt/bacula tree...

You can test the SD in debug and foreground mode:

# sudo -u bacula /opt/bacula/bin/bacula-sd -d100 -f     (adjust the path to where bacula-sd lives on Slackware)


...And should quickly see what the reason is.


Hope this helps,
Bill

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Bill Arlofski
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