Im Getting Authorization Errors. What is Going On?
For security reasons, Bacula requires that both the File daemon and the Storage daemon know the name of the Director as well as its password. As a consequence, if you change the Director’s name or password, you must make the corresponding change in the Storage daemon’s and in the File daemon’s configuration files. During the authorization process, the Storage daemon and File daemon also require that the Director authenticates itself, so both ends require the other to have the correct name and password. If you have edited the conf files and modified any name or any password, and you are getting authentication errors, then your best bet is to go back to the original conf files generated by the Bacula installation process. Make only the absolutely necessary modifications to these files — e.g. add the correct email address. Then follow the instructions in the Running Bacula chapter of this manual. You will run a backup to disk and a restore. Only when that works, should you begin customiz
