Getting 401 unauthorized when using the Bitbucket backup client

[Joel Newton]

I've put what I believe to be the correct, necessary values in the backup-config.properties file:

bitbucket.home=E:\\Atlassian\\ApplicationData\\Bitbucket

bitbucket.user=(local Windows user that runs the Bitbucket service)

bitbucket.password=(password for that same local user)

bitbucket.baseUrl=https://bitbucket.atlas.cm.com/

When I run the backup client, I get:

ERROR A backup could not be created
com.atlassian.bitbucket.internal.backup.client.BackupException: The Bitbucket version could not be verified; the server returned 401 Unauthorized. Backup/restore is only supported by Bitbucket 2.7.0 and later.
at com.atlassian.bitbucket.internal.backup.client.RestBitbucketService.handleVersionQueryFailure(RestBitbucketSe
rvice.groovy:359)
at com.atlassian.bitbucket.internal.backup.client.RestBitbucketService.getVersion(RestBitbucketService.groovy:18
8)

I'm running v5.7.0 and the latest version of the backup client.

Thanks.

[Dick · Accepted solution]

Hi Joel,

It looks like you've used the wrong user + password. Instead of using your local Windows user, bitbucket.user should be the username of a sysadmin on the Bitbucket service.

bitbucket.password should be the password for that user on Bitbucket. So, to summarise:

bitbucket.user=(username of a sysadmin on Bitbucket)
bitbucket.password=(password for that same sysadmin on Bitbucket)

I hope this helps!

Cheers.

[Joel Newton]

Thanks, Dick. Makes sense. I'll test that out tonight. 

[Joel Newton]

Yep, that's what I needed. Thanks.

[David]

Thanks Joel and Dick!  I've been searching and reading for hours/days trying to figure this and a few other things.  I stumbled across this a few days after I created a post(never received a response though). The user I had was sysadmin on BB and it wasn't working due to a "!" in the password field.  Ironically enough, I created another account with another sysadmin and didnt use the bang(just found out) and voila...thx!

[Raphael Teodoro]

incredible hint of yours! I was having the same problem because of a $