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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: c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies/ $ dir -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 63655 2006-10-05 14:32:49 c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My […]

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

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.

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).