bareos : 2902 Bad storage

Posted on March 17, 2017  •  1 minutes  • 127 words  •  Suggest Changes

While working with bareos backups, I got this error :

Fatal error: Bad response to Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage , got 2902 Bad storage

I thought it would be related to the underlying filesystem but a bit further in the error message log a hidden tip was to be found :

client-123 JobId 63: Error: bsock_tcp.c:187 bnet_host2ipaddrs() for host "bareoshead" failed: ERR=Name or service not known

However since this happened first, I would expect bareos to stop there. It doesn’t. What’s happening ? Well bareos could connect to the client it knows but the server “bareoshead” is not known to the client. That is why it fails in this particular case. After fixing /etc/hosts , I added this :

8.8.8.8 bareoshead

Next job ran successfully.