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 …
Bacula – ran out of space, moved some volumes to another zpool Read More »
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 …
Let’s try the speed test which comes with Bacula’s btape utility. This is Bacula 7.4.0 on FreeBSD 10.2, with a Dell TL4000 LTO-4 tape library.
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 …
Using a Dell TL4000 with Bacula’s bacula-sd on FreeBSD with ZFS Read More »
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 …
Dell TL4000 tape library: running btape and configuring Bacula’s mtx-changer Read More »
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 …
Bacula btape test of Dell TL4000 LTO-4 tape drives Read More »
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 …
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 …
Excluding the base-OS when backing up FreeBSD jails with Bacula Read More »
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 …
Earlier today, I saw a bunch of emails like this: for <root@localhos>; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) From: root@localhost.example.org (Bacula) Subject: Bacula: Copy Fatal Error of crey-fd Full Sender: bacula@bacula.example.org To: root@localhost.example.org Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <20150121203236.E993D2B28@bacula.example.org> X-Gm-Original-To: dan@example.org 21-Jan 20:32 bacula-dir JobId 197313: Warning: FileSet MD5 digest …
Bacula helps me solve a mergemaster problem which broke Bacula Read More »