I was at OSCON 2007 this week. I was there to present my Nobody Ever Regretted Making a Backup talk:
In the past few years, Bacula has been gaining ground on more established solutions, both open source and proprietary. This talk will introduce you to Bacula, show you the main components, give you an outline […]

I’ve been playing with OpenVPN since mid December. I like it. I like it better than IPsec. Why? Because OpenVPN can give me direct access to all my systems wherever I am. I can cvsup from my cvsup server at home from a hotel in Toledo (if I’m ever there). […]

More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.

Today, as I was writing up an invoice, I accidentally saved it over another.
No worries!  Bacula to the rescue.  I managed to get the original files back from tape.
One hint: include your pathnames in ”quotes” so they are correctly parsed.  Like this:

$ dir
———- 0 root wheel 0 […]

I’m in the midst of the first days of BSDCan, so why I am writing about Bacula? Because I found this description of what someone new to Bacula thinks about it. FWIW, they are changing from Amanda to Bacula.
cheers

Today I ran a test upgrade of my Bacula installation. I went from 1.36.3 to 1.38.5. After running the database upgrade script, which creates new columns and a few new tables, I noticed that I needed to set some permissions.
grant all on device to group bacula;
grant all on device_deviceid_seq to group bacula;
grant all […]

I’ve been given a patch to test. It changes the SCSI driver so that it will be slightly more like Linux and Solaris. I’m just documenting the patch process here so we can see what I’m doing, in case something goes wrong. This patch will allow us to open the tape drive, […]

The Bacula users and developers recently voted on 25 new projects to rank them in order of preference. The top five projects were:

Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption)

Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another.

Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from Incremental/Differential backups

Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python

Implement Base jobs

You […]

I’m heading off to Utah at the end of the month. The primary goal is to do some mountain biking in Moab. I’ve been there before but it’s time to go back again.
As part of my trip preparation, I contacted the Greater Utah BSD User Group (aka GUBUG. Wouldn’t you know it! […]

If you use Bacula, now is the time to donate. The project is raising funds to drive an encryption subproject. All funds will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The original call for funds is here and here. The status as of today is here (they are just under the 40% […]