Bacula

From this morning: $ bconsole Connecting to Director bacula.example.org:9101 1000 OK: bacula-dir Version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) Enter a period to cancel a command. *mount storage=DigitalTapeLibrary slot=1 3001 OK mount requested. Specified slot ignored. Device=”DTL01″ (/dev/nsa0) And nothing mounts… But…. *mount storage=DigitalTapeLibrary slot=1 3001 OK mount requested. Specified slot ignored. Device=”DTL01″ (/dev/nsa0) Eh? OK, backups […]

After running the script which upgrades your Bacula database to version 14, there are a couple of fix-ups you may wish to run: alter table restoreobject owner to bacula; grant all on restoreobject_restoreobjectid_seq to bacula; grant all on restoreobject to bacula; You may or may not have to do this, depending on how you ran

I have been using Bacula since 2004. I started off on DDS tapes, then moved to DLT. Now I’m backing up to a ZFS array and the copying to tape. About a year ago, I obtained about 200 DLT tapes from a friend. They were no longer used at his place of work. He used

Bacula is a backup and restore solution which I’ve been using and contributing to since 2004. Recently, I started backing up to disk and then copying to tape later. This approach, combined with a scratch pool, has proven to be very low maintenance, from a sysadmin point of view. I think all sysadmin will agree: