Re: Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:46:52 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.bacula.user
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On 7/25/25 10:11 PM, Todd Aiken wrote:
> Greetings everybody.
> 
> I am a new user of Bacula, and am having a very strange problem with
> setting up a new system that I hope somebody can help me with.
> 
> I successfully set up a new installation of Bacula on an Ubuntu 24.02
> server using the default configuration, and was able to run the
> BackupClient1 test backup job without any issues.  I then tried to
> setup a second storage daemon on my main Slackware64 15.0 server,
> where all of my free space is for storing backups.  I was able to
> compile Bacula, start the storage daemon, and successfully communicate
> with it via bconsole, but every time I would try to use it to run a
> backup, it would tell me that it 'Cannot find any appendable volumes.
> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume", and I would
> have to cancel the backup.  Again, this was using the default example
> configuration, with the only change I made was pointing the "Address"
> on th
e Ubuntu director to the Slackware storage daemon.

Hello Todd,

Can you show the actual log entries where the volume is being request, including the Pool.

I still have your configs sent to my personal email (have not had time to review them), so I may be able to solve this for 
you here. :)

Probably should post them here to for all to view.


> So it seems that using the same distributions, one director server can
> talk to a storage daemon on a different server, but is unable to talk
> to a storage daemon on a different distribution.  Just wondering if
> this is normal, and if not, what could be wrong with my setup that
> this is occurring?

Bacula Director and FD can talk to an SD running on a different distribution. The thing is that you must be sure that the SD 
version is exactly equal to the DIR version.


Best regards,
Bill

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