Error. Unable to connect to storage daemon

Error message

Message logs in the Management Console of the Backup & Disaster Recovery appliance show the following error:

bsock.c:184 Unable to connect to Storage daemon on 198.51.100.15:9103. ERR=Connection refused 

You may also see the following warnings in the Notices widget on the Dashboard tab:

insufficient storage space on /raid storage space critically low /raid storage space critically low /root full storage space critically low /var/log full 

If you see storage space critically low /raid/:catalogs: or primary database is inaccessible, this is a different error relating to the database space. Contact Infrascale Support.

Description

This error message shows when the RAID is full and no extra jobs can be added. Appliance does not automatically overwrite older jobs, so any new job fails if the appliance does not have enough space to store them.

Steps to resolve

To resolve this issue, clear space on the appliance disks.