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
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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 all on mediatype to group bacula; grant all on mediatype_mediatypeid_seq to group bacula; grant all on status to
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The Bacula users and developers recently voted on 25 new projects to rank them in order of preference. The top five projects were: Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption) Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another. Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from Incremental/Differential backups Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python Implement Base jobs You can see the list of projects and you can see how people voted.
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If you use Bacula, now is the time to donate. The project is raising funds to drive an encryption subproject. All funds will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The original call for funds is here and here. The status as of today is here (they are just under the 40% mark).
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As mentioned in Doing a bit of stress work on a new HDD, I have a failing 5TB drive which is going to be replace by a 4TB drive. Only about 1.45TB are used, so there’s plenty of space to grow. If you get one thing from this post, don’t be downsizing zpools like this. I would have had much less work and opportunity for error, if I had returned that 4TB drive
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As foreshadowed in x8dtu – drive problems, I will be visiting a data center soon to replace a 4TB HDD. The replacement HDD arrived last night. It was unceremoniously tossed onto the front porch by the courier. However, it was properly packaged. I’m sure it’s fine. The original idea: put this drive into a host, and write some data to it, to exercise it a bit. As you will soon learn, that is
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This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created after I added a new spare via Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
~/.ssh/authorized_keys allows you to specify the command run by the incoming ssh connection. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 I was searching for a previous blog post to give you some background. I failed. I backup my Bacula database and my Bacula configuration via rsync. These backups go to more than one host. The following are lines from ~rsyncer/.ssh/authorized-keys on my dbclone host – which gathers database backups from various hosts. The above appears
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This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It has been replaced by a newer post It replaced an earlier post. This new post was created after I added a new spare via Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
After replacing an existing gateway with new hardware, the OpenVPN connections had issues. The clients would connect, but non-trivial amounts of traffic would cause errors. This post contains a workaround, by upgrading the OS. I would like to know the cause. In this post, these are the version in use: FreeBSD 14.2 (for the OpenVPN server and some of the clients) FreeBSD 14.1 (for some of the clients) OpenVPN 2.6.13 (on the server
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