>>>>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 11:33:04 -0400, Gary Dale said: > > On 2025-09-02 07:22, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > > >> Can someone please revise the comments to be more reflective of a > >> typical situation? > > Let's say a place uses 127.0.0.1 (or localhost). It's up. It's running. > > > > An FD (client / bacula-fd) is added. Backups work well. Everything is great. > > > > That's it. You're not adding any more clients. Practically speaking, you're > > done. > > > > If you want to add another client, presumably, on another host, it'll be > > at, let's say 10.0.0.1 > > > > You configure the job. You run it. > > > > bacula-dir contacts bacula-fd (at 10.0.0.1) and says: > > > > Backup this FileSet to this bacula-sd (127.0.0.1). > > > > Oh. That isn't going to happen. > > > > Other considerations. Using certificates is much easier with hostnames than > > IP addresses. > > > > I also suspect many examples, now lost to history, arose before those > > comments were added in. > > > > If your situation is working only with 127.0.0.1 and you'd like to change > > that, please ask away. > > > Well, the particular situation is I can back up my file server fine > using 127.0.0.1. However, if I change the address to the local IP > address of the server (or the FQDN), it fails to connect to the storage > daemon. So, yes, this part is working.
That would happen if you have set SdAddress or SdAddresses to localhost in the bacula-sd.conf. Check what "netstat -ta" or "ss -ta" shows for the sd port (9103). Also, some Linux distros (Debian in particular), put a line like: 127.0.1.1 myhostname.mydomain myhostname in /etc/hosts by default, which causes myhostname.mydomain and myhostname to resolve to 127.0.1.1 on that machine. I always delete that line because it causes some subtle problems. > I also want to backup my workstation. No matter what address I used in > bacular-dir.conf, I get a connection refused message when I check the > status in bconsole. This might be the same problem as above, but for FdAddress or FdAddresses in the workstation's bacula-fd.conf. __Martin _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
