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Bacula – ran out of space, moved some volumes to another zpool

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I’m using Bacula 9.0.3 for this post, on FreeBSD 10.3 and 11.1. I did not document this as I went along, however, the details should be enough to get you started. NOTE: when I refer to the bacula-sd configuration, I mean the bacula-sd in question, not necessarily on the same server as bacula-dir. This will hopefully make you think carefully about which file you are modifying. NOTE: I am moving a whole Bacula […]

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Bacula – copy to tape by job size

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Backups are pretty amazing. The things you can do with them can be both highly entertaining and surprisingly easy. Today, we will venture into the easy part. Yesterday was the first Sunday of the month, which, according to my Bacula installation’s schedule is the day for full backups. Today, now that that is done, is copy-to-tape day according to my schedule. I do this manually because I don’t want the tape library, and

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Adding in a SAS card renumbered my devices

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Last night, I added a SAS card into a box which is connected to a tape library (photos here). After starting up the box, Nagios reported that the tape device was no longer present. I first added such checks back in 2012 and updated them for more recent acquisitions. This means that the copy-to-tape jobs did not run last night, because there was no sa0, instead, there was an sa1, which was not

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Using a Dell TL4000 with Bacula’s bacula-sd on FreeBSD with ZFS

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Last night, I managed to install new (but used) SAS cables for my Dell TL4000 on the tape01 server. I managed to get bacula-sd running, but I was unable to communicate with it from bacula-dir, via bconsole on my laptop. Eventually, I ran bacula-sd from the command line in the foreground and with debugging and saw things which needed to be corrected. In this post, I will adjust permissions on devices get bacula-dir

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Dell TL4000 tape library: running btape and configuring Bacula’s mtx-changer

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In this post, I am using FreeBSD 10.2 and Bacula 7.4.0. I am now the proud second-hand owner of a Dell TL4000. The first thing I did was add an air filter. Why? Because I can. I got one made, with custom dimensions, by DEMCiflex. You can see that filter here in this photo. My next task is configuring the tape library to work with Bacula. The first part of that is mtx-changer

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Bacula btape test of Dell TL4000 LTO-4 tape drives

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I hooked up the Dell TL4000 tape library tonight. I have bacula-sd.conf configured, but I do not have the autochanger configured or tested. I just wanted to run a btape test. A btape test is an essential part of setting up your tape drive with Bacula as it is the initial testing of tape drive compatibility I will do the other tape drive another day.

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More Bacula Excludes with Jails and FreeBSD

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Following on from my post about excluding the base OS with a Bacula FileSet, I decided to exclude some more. The starting point Here are the baselines: What else will I exclude? I decided to exclude the following as well: Adding iocage support Along the way, I extended the Exclude to work on server using the iocage jail management tool. I also split the Exclude out into its own file. Here is the

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Excluding the base-OS when backing up FreeBSD jails with Bacula

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I felt I was backing up way too much on my jail server. I was backing up files which would be installed as part of the OS. Let’s look at the esimate: *estimate level=full job=”slocum jail snapshots” Using Catalog “MyCatalog” Connecting to Client slocum-fd at slocum.int.unixathome.org:9102 2000 OK estimate files=2,824,716 bytes=239,568,332,325 * I decided to add these to the FileSet: Options { Exclude = yes WildDir = “/usr/jails/*/.zfs/snapshot/basejail” WildDir = “/usr/jails/*/.zfs/snapshot/bin” WildDir =

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Cannot find any appendable volumes – Bacula

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A problem arose today which I have never seen before. I do not know what caused it and I do not know precisely how I fixed it. I am using Baclua 7.0.5 on FreeBSD 9.3 I found this email today: This is Bacula asking for more ‘tape’. I say tape, because that is an easy analogy to follow. In effect, the tape library has no tapes to which Bacula can place this backup.

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