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 […]
Bacula Retention Periods Read More »
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
Migrating some Bacula jobs Read More »
I noticed today that the Bacula installation was still using the default File Storage location of /tmp. That is adequate for testing, but we should move it elsewhere. The safest approach to making this change is: stop bacula-sd copy the files to the new location rename the old location amend bacula-sd.conf restart bacula-sd test After
Bacula – moving File storage Read More »
Bacula 3.0 is getting much closer to release. There are some amazing new features coming soon to a packaging system near you. I last wrote about these features in October. I am bringing them up again because I just submitted a patch for sysutils/bacula-server-devel. Yes, now you can easily start playing with all those new
I run Bacula. I have coded for Bacula. Now I’m writing about Bacula again. Bacula is by far and away the best open source program for managing network-based backups. In this article, I will show you how I migrated a bunch of jobs from a disk Volume to a tape Volume. However, the approach I
Migrating one Bacula Volume to another Read More »
There are several new interesting features in the upcoming Bacula release. Including, but not limited to: “Accurate” backups regardless of mtime, mv, rm, etc Copy Jobs Virutal Backup / Synthetic Backup / Consolidation Duplicate Job Control TLS Authentication Ignore Dir Honor No Dump Flag Plugins libdbi framework These features are being added to the development
New Bacula features Read More »
More and more people are learning about Bacula. Here is a little survey I did at LISA06.
Bacula – Network Backups Read More »
Today, as I was writing up an invoice, I accidentally saved it over another. No worries! Bacula to the rescue. I managed to get the original files back from tape. One hint: include your pathnames in “quotes” so they are correctly parsed. Like this: $ dir ———- 0 root wheel 0 1969-12-31 19:00:00 c:/ $ cd “c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies” cwd is:
Bacula – restoring to Windows Read More »
I’m in the midst of the first days of BSDCan, so why I am writing about Bacula? Because I found this description of what someone new to Bacula thinks about it. FWIW, they are changing from Amanda to Bacula. :) cheers
Bacula from a newbie’s point of view Read More »
Today I ran a test upgrade of my Bacula installation. I went from 1.36.3 to 1.38.5. After running the database upgrade script, which creates new columns and a few new tables, I noticed that I needed to set some permissions. grant all on device to group bacula; grant all on device_deviceid_seq to group bacula; grant
Bacula – notes on upgrading to 1.38.5 Read More »