Bacula uses flat text files for configuration. From time to time, people, usually new to the project, ask: why isn’t the configuration in the database? Bacula uses the database to store information about what files were backed up, from what client, and when. This information is useful when you need to know how if you […]
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Bacula is a backup system with three different retention periods: Volume Job File I set all three to the same value. It is important to note that these values affect only the Catalog. It determines how long a given record is held in the database. For example, if you set File Retention to be 45
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I have about 14,000 data points collected from backups. I started in Oct 2007, but have not done anything with the data. I’d like your help. I have put the data into a PostgreSQL database and dumped it. The dump is here: http://langille.org/tmp/dlt_stats.sql.gz The table looks like: $ psql dan psql (8.4.2) Type “help” for
I’m thinking about creating a storage box. One with a lot of disk space. It will be used for backups and stuff. I will continue to backup to tape as well. I’m considering this case, which has 8xSATA hot-swap bays: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811192058 If I was buying a RAID card, I’d buy this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131002&Tpk=areca%201120 But I
Both BSDCan and PGCon use Pentabarf for accepting and reviewing proposals for talks. An issue raised in 2009 highlighted the ability to see the speaker name when review the list of submissions. It is a bit of very useful information. This year, I’ve found out that we can see that vital data. Provided the speaker
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Seen this? /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libcroco-0.6.so.3″ not found, required by ” msgfmt” Rebuild gettext. portupgrade -f gettext And try again Port details, not relevant: # less /var/db/ports/postgresql73/options # This file is auto-generated by ‘make config’. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for postgresql-server-7.3.21_1 _OPTIONS_READ=postgresql-server-7.3.21_1 WITH_NLS=true WITHOUT_PAM=true WITHOUT_MIT_KRB5=true WITHOUT_HEIMDAL_KRB5=true WITHOUT_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true WITHOUT_LIBC_R=true WITHOUT_TESTS=true WITHOUT_DEBUG=true The building
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NOTE: this problem may not be a problem. After rebooting the system while having the tape library powered up, the problem went away. This may or may not be coincident. Note to self: mtx-changer needs more customization than I thought. Today showed great progress in completing the integration of my tape library into my Bacula
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Pentabarf is the conference tool used by BSDCan and PGCON. I upgraded it recently and ran into trouble. I think that has been resolved now. Since I last upgraded Pentabarf, it went from using svn to using git. Thus, you need a clean checkout of Pentabarf. I copied away the original source before I did
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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
I noticed that one of our disk-based Volumes used a label name similar to that of our tape-based Volumes. To avoid confusion, I will rename that Volume. But, renaming a Volume is not simple, nor recommended if the Volume contains data. It is better to migrate the data instead. The Volume in question has MediaId
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