Last night I started to catch up on copying jobs from disk to tape. There were about 420 incremental jobs waiting. I started my CopyToTape-Inc job, and it queued up 417 jobs: The next morning, all jobs had completed, but there were still jobs left to be copied over (as determined by my magical Bacula […]
Older versions of Bacula – copy/migrate has limit of 99 jobs Read More »
This output is a Bacula btape test of the library mentioned in this post. $ sudo btape -c /usr/local/etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nsa0 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:290 Using device: “/dev/nsa0” for writing. btape: btape.c:477 open device “DTL03” (/dev/nsa0): OK *test === Write, rewind, and re-read test === I’m going to write 10000 records and
Bacula btape test of Compaq Storage Works MSL5026 Library Read More »
I am fortunate to receive donations. In the early days, it was a 386 desktop. Later, it was SCSI drives. Recently, it’s been tape libraries. A Bacula user in Europe donated an Overland DLT-8000 tape library in 2012 and paid for shipping to me. At BSDCan 2013, I was fortunate to pick up an Compaq
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I wrote this nearly a year ago, but did not publish it then. Tonight I found this query running, so I tried an explain analyse on it: That’s 10 seconds. Add an index: bacula=# create index media_lastwritten_idx on media(lastwritten); CREATE INDEX Run the query again: Forgive my math, but that’s over 10,000 times faster now.
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This post has it all: backups deduplication snapshots ZFS Bacula ezjail Backups are essential for proper sanity, or at least, a reasonable facsimile. I strongly believe that doing backups right is the only way to backup. Go big or go home. I’ve been converting all my servers to ZFS. I like ZFS for many reasons,
Script for listing the latest ZFS snapshot – starting place for Bacula backups Read More »
Like many people, I have a laptop which I backup using Bacula. In my case, the laptop may be present under one of two condition: directly connected to my network via wireless indirectly connected to my network via VPN My VPN of preference is OpenVPN, but that’s not relevant to the situation. The issue is:
Bacula – client changes host name Read More »
This article was written some months go, but only published today. I recently acquired a new tape auto-changer / library. I have already run some simple tests on the library, and all seems well. I already have an existing Bacula installation and my plan is to add this new auto-changer into that. The Devices The
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If you see this message when trying to svn up: then you are missing a subversion compile option. Try this command: cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion && make config Then make sure this option is checked: [X] SERF WebDAV/Delta-V (HTTP/HTTPS) repo access module Then recompile subversion with one of these two commands: portupgrade -f subversion Or portmaster subversion
svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme Read More »
I’ve been using Bacula since early 2004. I’ve been using FreeBSD since 1998. Jails are a relatively newcomer. I starting using it later in 2004. But it’s only recently that I’ve started using them intensively. Backups are always a touchy subject. With ezjail, the files you need to backup are greatly reduced. You’re not backing
ezjail-jail: making a full backup of a FreeBSD jail with Bacula Read More »
I use FreeBSD. I’ve used it since 1998. For me, it does good stuff, reliably, and predictably. The community is very supportive and helpful. That goes a long way when choosing your open source operating system. Included within FreeBSD, since FreeBSD 4.0 in March 2000, is a great tool for separating out services and to
Using Bacula in a jail Read More »