Gary,
I think your problem is in this line:
Director = {
Delete the "=" and try again.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the benefits of running Linux on a phone is that it runs all the
> software I'm used to. I thought it would be easy to run Bacula to backup
> the phone daily. That wasn't quite the case.
>
> The first sticking point was that the phone kept changing its MAC
> address. which made it impossible to preserve an IP (unless I wanted to
> never use public WiFi anymore). Fortunately the developers fixed that so
> it now picks up a reserved DHCP address from my home router.
>
> My first thought was to just duplicate my workstation's setup on my
> bacula server and copy the workstation's -fd.conf file to my phone and
> adjust it.
>
> Seems to almost work. I can start a job on the server and it will try to
> run it but fails after 3 minutes because it can't communicate with the
> phone's fd.
>
> Looking on the phone, bacula-fd isn't starting (see below).
>
> What I can't figure out is why. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> My bacula-fd.conf on the phone is:
>
> cat bacula-fd.conf
> #
> # Default Bacula File Daemon Configuration file
> #
> # There is not much to change here except perhaps the
> # File daemon Name to
> #
> #
> # Copyright (C) 2000-2023 Kern Sibbald
> # License: BSD 2-Clause; see file LICENSE-FOSS
> #
>
> #
> # List Directors who are permitted to contact this File daemon
> #
> Director {
> Name = FuriPhoneFLX1s-dir
> Password = "<same as on server & workstation>"
> }
>
> Director = {
> Name = TheLibrarian-dir # bacula server
> Password = "<same as on server & workstation>"
> }
>
> #
> # Restricted Director, used by tray-monitor to get the
> # status of the file daemon
> #
>
> Director {
> Name = FuriPhoneFLX1s-mon
> Password = "<random password - not sure where it is used>"
> Monitor = yes
> }
>
> #
> # "Global" File daemon configuration specifications
> #
> FileDaemon { # this is me
> Name = FuriPhoneFLX1s-fd
> FDport = 9102 # where we listen for the director
> WorkingDirectory = /var/lib/bacula
> Pid Directory = /run/bacula
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
> Plugin Directory = /usr/lib/bacula
> FDAddress = <phone's IP address>
> }
>
> # Send all messages except skipped files back to Director
> Messages {
> Name = Standard
> director = FuriPhoneFLX1s-dir = all, !skipped, !restored, !verified,
> !saved
> }
>
> -------------------------
>
> systemd output
>
> --------------------------
>
> # systemctl status bacula-fd.service
> ● bacula-fd.service - Bacula File Daemon service
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bacula-fd.service;
> enabled; preset: enabled)
> Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon
> 2026-06-01 17:39:09 EDT; 47s ago
> Invocation: 5c3dcb2ce66741599440a8c7185419d0
> Docs: man:bacula-fd(8)
> Process: 1395076 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/bacula-fd -t -c $CONFIG
> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> CPU: 13ms
>
> Jun 01 17:39:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s systemd[1]: bacula-fd.service: Control
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Jun 01 17:39:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s systemd[1]: bacula-fd.service: Failed
> with result 'exit-code'.
> Jun 01 17:39:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s systemd[1]: Failed to start
> bacula-fd.service - Bacula File Daemon service.
>
> and
>
> # journalctl -xeu bacula-fd.service
> ░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> ░░
> ░░ A start job for unit bacula-fd.service has begun execution.
> ░░
> ░░ The job identifier is 154579.
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: bacula-fd: ERROR
> TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:1722
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: Config error:
> unexpected token 110 T_EQUALS in resource definition
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: : line
> 21, col 10 of file /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: Director = {
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: 01-Jun 17:41
> bacula-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:1722
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: Config error:
> unexpected token 110 T_EQUALS in resource definition
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: : line
> 21, col 10 of file /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s bacula-fd[1400104]: Director = {
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s systemd[1]: bacula-fd.service: Control
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> ░░ Subject: Unit process exited
> ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> ░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> ░░
> ░░ An ExecStartPre= process belonging to unit bacula-fd.service has exited.
> ░░
> ░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s systemd[1]: bacula-fd.service: Failed
> with result 'exit-code'.
> ░░ Subject: Unit failed
> ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> ░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> ░░
> ░░ The unit bacula-fd.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
> 'exit-code'.
> Jun 01 17:41:09 FuriPhoneFLX1s systemd[1]: Failed to start
> bacula-fd.service - Bacula File Daemon service.
> ░░ Subject: A start job for unit bacula-fd.service has failed
> ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> ░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
> ░░
> ░░ A start job for unit bacula-fd.service has finished with a failure.
> ░░
>
>
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Russell Kackley
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Hilo, Hawaii
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