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Getting the right type of certificate

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This post covers my debugging of a self-signed certificate on one of my Bacula instances. The error message is: I’ve encountered that unsupported certificate purpose message before: OpenVPN: unsupported certificate purpose SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd I always thought it was a server versus client issue. Now I’m not so sure. There was also an ssl-admin issue In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 ssl-admin-1.3.0 Bacula 9.6.7 – yes, that is rather outdated; […]

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Bacula – copying the latest jobs over from one SD to another

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I want to copy the latest backups for each Bacula client over to a new host. I already do this, on an automated basis, for recent backups, primarily to have the same backups in two different places. In this case, I want to do this once. This post might also be a good introduction to copying / moving jobs based on SQL queries. See also Bacula – copy to tape by job size

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Bacula – calculating Maximum Volume Bytes and Maximum Volumes based on historical data

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I’ve used Bacula since at least January 2004 (so nearly 20 years). I liked it so much I dropped my deployment-in-motion of another tool (if you search lightly, you can find out which one). I liked it so much, I wrote a PostgreSQL backend for it. This post is not for Bacula novices. This post is for those who have already deployed a Bacula instance and are rather familiar with the process. I

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Labelling tapes in bulk – Bacula

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This is not a significant post. It is for the record. I received 20 new LTO4 tapes recently. I attached the external labels to them after using https://kelvin.nu/barcode *label barcodes pool=Scratch storage=bacula-sd-02 drive=0 slot=1-7,11-15,17-23,39,47 Connecting to Storage daemon bacula-sd-02 at bacula-sd-02.int.unixathome.org:9103 … 3306 Issuing autochanger “slots” command. Device “bacula-sd-02” has 47 slots. Connecting to Storage daemon bacula-sd-02 at bacula-sd-02.int.unixathome.org:9103 … 3306 Issuing autochanger “list” command. The following Volumes will be labeled: Slot Volume

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Tarsnap – cleaning up old backups

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I use Tarsnap for my critical data. Case in point, I use it to backup my Bacula database dump. I use Bacula to backup my hosts. The database in question keeps track of what was backed up, from what host, the file size, checksum, where that backup is now, and many other items. Losing this data is annoying but not a disaster. It can be recreated from the backup volumes, but that is

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The backups have been wrong for about 97 days

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I backup my databases daily. They get dumped to a disk file and copied somewhere else. Then they are backed up into a file system. Once a month they get copied to tape. Yesterday I upgraded a PostgreSQL database server, and it went well. Overnight, a backup failed. This is the story of how that led to me discovering my backups have been at risk for nearly 100 days. The error This morning

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Migrating a Dell TL4000 to a new FreeBSD server and attaching it to a jail

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I recently migrated a bunch of jails from one server to another. Today I attached the Dell TL4000 tape library. A jail on this server copied Bacula backups from disk to tape. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 Bacula 9.4.3 Dell R720 Investigation As anticipated, I needed to update the server configuration to cope with changed device numbers. The symptoms: when running the update slots command from within bconsole, I was getting this response.

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Oct 4 09:01:24 slocum kernel: pid 1409 (check_bacula), uid 181: exited on signal 11

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I’ve been getting these messages in /var/log/messages on slocum for as long as I can remember. Today I found out why those errors are occurring. They are logged on the FreeBSD jail host for a Nagios instance I run. Nagios runs in a jail on that host. I’ve just been ignoring the messages, but today it got me. I was having trouble getting a new FreeBSD port to work, so I was easily

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Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail

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In this post: Bacula 7.4 FreeBSD 11.1 py-iocage 0.9.9.2 I recently wrote about Converting a Dell R710 into a ZFS-based FreeBSD 11.1 tape library bacula-sd and then about getting the drives ready. That system, henceforth referred to as the r710 is now ready for the Bacula setup. Last night I created a jail and installed the software I’ll need. Most of this was done via Ansible. I also configured Bacula both on the

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