Hello Carlos,
Many thanks for describing your way to find the exact problem and for
the workarround. Your analyze looks correct.
I will fix it soon and I will let know here.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards.
Marcin Haba (gani)
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 02:07, Catin King via Bacula-devel
<bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>
> Ok guys, I seem to have stumbled upon something interesting.
>
> The attached bdirjson output is irrelevant due that is the one in effect
> before Baculum tries to update bacula-dir.conf and it's got the correct
> information.
>
> I performed a little bit of code change in Baculum API so even though the
> configuration did not pass verifications it would be written to
> bacula-dir.conf to find the actual configuration error. Turns out that
> baculum would write the "MaximumVolumeBytes" property of any pool that has
> any size specified between double quotes (") (like a string) making
> bacula-dir -t refuse the value because it seems text and not a number to it
> and complaining that it is not getting a size.
>
> The error message is a bit misleading since it looks like Baculum API is
> trying to "convert" from the Vanilla configure file with the comments and so,
> to a more redacted version, and chokes when it tries to write the
> MaximumVolumeBytes that comes specified in the Default and File pools that
> comes on the Vanilla bacula-dir.conf file.
>
> TL;DR
> I found a workaround as follows:
> in /usr/share/baculum/htdocs/protected/API/Class/BaculaSettings.php in the
> formatDirectiveValue function, i changed this (line 430 in baculum 9.2.1)
>
> } elseif (is_int($value)) {
>
> for this:
>
> } elseif (is_numeric($value)) {
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Carlos
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catin King via Bacula-devel <bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> To: bacula-devel <bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Sat, Oct 20, 2018 10:30 am
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-devel] New to Bacula-GUI, Having a recurring
> JSON-related error.
>
> Hello Guys, Sorry for the late response.
>
> In the attached bdirjson_output.txt is the number (it's either the "Default"
> pool, or the "File", neither of which I use, I use the one I created called
> "Diario" with Volume Retention of 2592000).
>
> {
> "Pool": {
> "Name": "Default",
> "PoolType": "Backup",
> "LabelFormat": "Default-",
> "MaximumVolumes": 100,
> "MaximumVolumeJobs": 5,
> "MaximumVolumeBytes": 5368709120,
> "VolumeRetention": 604800,
> "AutoPrune": true,
> "Recycle": true
> }
> },
> {
> "Pool": {
> "Name": "Diario",
> "PoolType": "Backup",
> "LabelFormat": "Diario-",
> "MaximumVolumeBytes": 5368709120,
> "VolumeRetention": 2592000,
> "AutoPrune": true,
> "Recycle": true
> }
> },
> {
> "Pool": {
> "Name": "File",
> "PoolType": "Backup",
> "LabelFormat": "Vol-",
> "MaximumVolumes": 100,
> "MaximumVolumeJobs": 5,
> "MaximumVolumeBytes": 5368709120,
> "VolumeRetention": 604800,
> "AutoPrune": true,
> "Recycle": true
> }
> },
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catin King <cgg...@aol.com>
> To: bacula-devel <bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 6:39 pm
> Subject: New to Bacula-GUI, Having a recurring JSON-related error.
>
> Hello Bacula Developers,
>
> I'm new to the project and gotta say thank you for such a fine piece of
> software.
>
> As I am using different types of hardware to perform the functions of the
> Backup Solution, I've been faced with compiling bacula 9.2.1 from source
> code, which has worked well for me so far. Everything is up and running, the
> director, the SD and the FDs, no hassle about that.
>
> My only issue comes from bacula-gui; whenever I request to perform changes
> either in clientes, pools or pretty much anything i get a nasty message in
> the bottom of the screen stating the following:
>
>
> "
> Error 94: Config validation error.Array ( [output] => JSON tool returned
> wrong exitcode. Output:bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:788
> Config error: expected a size number, got: VolumeRetention : line 180, col 18
> of file /etc/bacula/config_8etTke VolumeRetention = 604800 12-Oct 18:15
> bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:788 Config error: expected a
> size number, got: VolumeRetention : line 180, col 18 of file
> /etc/bacula/config_8etTke VolumeRetention = 604800 [exitcode] => 82 ) "
>
> 604800 is a variable number and it changes according to the VolumeRetention
> of my pool, which is expected. Seems to me something else is required that
> I'm missing.
>
> On the other hand, webmin has been my helpful hand in configuring and
> performing my first test backups succesfully, but i'd like to use Bacula
> products accross the board, namely the bacula-gui interface which looks
> really polished vs the webmin module.
>
> If you can provide a hint on which logs to look at, I'd be more than glad to
> help or contribute.
>
> Extra info.
> bacula-gui-9.2.1 (baculum) extracted from source tarball, configured using
>
> make build DESTDIR=/tmp/baculum-release SAMPLETYPE=deb-template \
> HTTPDNAME=apache2 HTTPDSITECONF=sites-available
>
>
>
>
>
> on raspbian stretch . API and Web configured succesfully.
>
>
>
>
>
> Apache2 Version: 2.4.25-3+deb9u5
>
>
> Version: 1:7.0+49
>
>
> bdirjson 9.2.1
>
>
>
>
>
> I also attached an output of the bdirjson command without options and a
> screen capture of the error.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Carlos.
>
>
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