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When is a cleaning tape needed?

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As part of my magical Bacula website, I wanted to know when my tape drive required a cleaning tape. It appears that smartctl will reveal this information: [dan@kraken:/usr/home/dan] $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/in/smartctl -d scsi -x /dev/nsa0 Password: smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Device: DEC TZ89 (C) DEC Version: 2561 Serial number: CXA02S1766 Device type: tape Local Time is: Tue Jun 21 00:22:26 2011 […]

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Faster backups

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Backups come in three flavors: Full – backup everything Differential – backup everything since the last Full backup Incremental – backup everything since the last backup (Full or Incremental) I took the above from What Is Bacula? Most systems use mtime to determine if a file has changed. Thus, any file that has been modified since the last backup will be picked up in the next incremental or differential backup. Full backups are

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Bacula – moving File storage

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I noticed today that the Bacula installation was still using the default File Storage location of /tmp. That is adequate for testing, but we should move it elsewhere. The safest approach to making this change is: stop bacula-sd copy the files to the new location rename the old location amend bacula-sd.conf restart bacula-sd test After you have confirmed everything is OK, you can remove the old location.

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Migrating one Bacula Volume to another

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I run Bacula. I have coded for Bacula. Now I’m writing about Bacula again. Bacula is by far and away the best open source program for managing network-based backups. In this article, I will show you how I migrated a bunch of jobs from a disk Volume to a tape Volume. However, the approach I will use can be applied to any type of job migration. Why bother? I’m running of disk space

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