Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread mehma sarja
>From all that is passing or trespassing through this thread, a passing thought comes to me: I don't think you are changing the right conf files - or you may have multiple executables and they are not looking at where the conf files are. The hint that the hunch is based on is the restart does not

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Langille
Eric Downing wrote: > Yes, I did restart the services, however I was unable to use the > traditional method. > > /etc/init.d/bacula-sd restart > /etc/init.d/bacula-fd restart > > both produced file not found and 'service bacula-sd restart' produced > the same results. > > I eventually power c

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/31/10 20:46, Eric Downing wrote: > Thanks for all your replies. Here's where I am: > > I'm able to use bconsole to get the status of the various demons however > what I don't understand is the passwords. I've tried copying the > passwords from bacula-dir.conf into the corresponding bacula-fd

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Downing
Yes, I did restart the services, however I was unable to use the traditional method. /etc/init.d/bacula-sd restart /etc/init.d/bacula-fd restart both  produced file not found and 'service bacula-sd restart' produced the same results. I eventually power cycled the machine. Came back to the sa

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Langille
Eric Downing wrote: > OK, I synced all the passwords I could find in -dir, -fd, -sd, and > bconsole. Still experiencing the same issues. I think you should start a brand new thread for each email (e.g. hit Compose instead of reply). Did you restart all those services? -

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Downing
Thanks for all your replies. Here's where I am: I'm able to use bconsole to get the status of the various demons however what I don't understand is the passwords. I've tried copying the passwords from bacula-dir.conf into the corresponding bacula-fd and bacula-sd files however I keep getting t

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Downing
OK, I synced all the passwords I could find in -dir, -fd, -sd, and bconsole. Still experiencing the same issues. Eric Downing wrote: Thanks for all your replies. Here's where I am: I'm able to use bconsole to get the status of the various demons however what I don't understand is the

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread mehma sarja
2010/1/31 Eric Downing [...] > Here's how I see the birds eye view of the process: > > Install MySQL, confirm operation > Install bacula (I'm using apt-get) > > Install from source - it's not that hard. > backup originals and modify the -dir -fd -sd for password and localhost > > Make life easie

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Downing
Thanks for that Bruno. I've wiped and reinstalled my Ubuntu partition. Luckily I had .tar'ed my clean install. So I'm back to a clean slate. I'm going to get MySQL up and running and then attempt another Bacula install. As before, are there any recommended step-by-steps? I have read the quicks

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/31/2010 1:20 AM, Eric Downing wrote:/bacula-dir.conf In MySQL there actually is no bacula database, so I created it and still got the same error. I also checked that the bacula password for MySQL and the password defined in /bacula-dir.conf were synced. Seeing as how these seem to be seri

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 01/31/2010 07:20 AM, Eric Downing wrote: > Hi, > > New to bacula, semi-new to Linux. So I'm having some serious problems getting > bacula up and running. I have read the Bacula quick start and skimmed the > rest, > I'm fairly certain I understand the fundamentals. I followed a guide here: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Jesper Krogh
Eric Downing wrote: > Ok in my bacula-dir.conf file there was an entry for 'diraddress=127.0.0.1' > however commented that out earlier by myself upon a suggestion I read > somewhere. I uncommented it and changed it to the local IP. I restarted > bacula-director and tried to bconsole in with th

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Downing
Ok in my bacula-dir.conf file there was an entry for 'diraddress=127.0.0.1' however   commented that out earlier by myself upon a suggestion I read somewhere. I uncommented it and changed it to the local IP. I restarted bacula-director and tried to bconsole in with the same results. Additional

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Downing
Oh no I wasn't implying that the list is slow! As a matter of fact I joined the list and watched the issues and responses for about a week before deciding on bacula as my solution. The list here is great! I do not have a firewall, and I'll try checking the configs as you suggested. =) Thank y

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-30 Thread Jesper Krogh
Eric Downing wrote: > OK, giving up. I think I've muddied things up too much so I'm going to > restore > from a clean backup. > > Are there any good step by steps out there? I imagine the ones I'm using > aren't > working. I'm looking to first backup the local box (to a USB drive) then make >

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Downing
OK, giving up. I think I've muddied things up too much so I'm going to restore from a clean backup. Are there any good step by steps out there? I imagine the ones I'm using aren't working. I'm looking to first backup the local box (to a USB drive) then make the leap to backing up my various bo

[Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Downing
Hi, New to bacula, semi-new to Linux. So I'm having some serious problems getting bacula up and running. I have read the Bacula quick start and skimmed the rest, I'm fairly certain I understand the fundamentals. I followed a guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bacula The first issu