August 6, 2013 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Aug 6 2013

Moving Bacula Volumes from one Storage to Another

Leave a Comment / Bacula, FreeBSD, Open Source, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / August 6, 2013

A few weeks ago, I moved some Bacula Volumes from one Storage Daemon to another. In fact, I was decommissioning the old bacula-sd and creating a new one. I copied all the Volumes over. Backups have been running smoothly ever since. However. Today I tried a restore. It failed. Without any useful diagnostic information. Here is what I have: After thinking for a while, I started to wonder if this was a database […]

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nagios check for Bacula Pool volumes

I’m thinking about a Nagios check to let me know the status of various Bacula pools. As in, how many volumes are left, versus the maximum number of volumes permitted in this pool. Here is the bconsole command I would use: And here’s the command line bit which might work: I’ll ponder this a bit longer, and decide if I really want this monitored.