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Amanda versus Bacula and (modern as of 2017) large backup jobs
I've used Amanda for many years now, Bacula more recently. They'll both get the job done. They both have somewhat of a learning curve. Both are very reliable.
I'd say overall, Bacula is a bit ...
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Amanda versus Bacula and (modern as of 2017) large backup jobs
I use Bacula since about 13 years, and Quantum Superloader LT6 Tape Library since about 3-4 years.
Is Amanda used for jobs of this magnitude? Is it superseded at this point by Bacula? Is there a ...
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votes
Restore files from Bacula backup with missing server
You have multiple options to recover from this, but it should always be possible to rebuild the database of the backup content with the bscan program.
Depending on how your system is configured and ...
2
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Bacula: Writing backup fails
The correct permissions for the files in the storage daemon are bacula:disk.
So
chown -R bacula:disk /var/bacula/backups
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How to handle migrated job in bacula
It's hard to know the exact problem without seeing your configuration, since there are so many parameters available to set. However, I suspect your immediate problem is simply that Bacula won't reuse ...
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Duplicity for remote backup to AWS S3
The short answer is... sort of.
It's possible to back and retrieve your files. However, if you look in your Amazon bucket from the web interface, all you will see are backup archives, not the ...
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Ansible: copy config to current and other hosts
Something like this, for example:
inventory:
[debian]
host1
host2
host3 bacula_role=server
host4
host5
play:
- hosts: debian
vars:
bacula_server: "{{ (ansible_play_hosts | map('extract',...
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Bareos / Bacula backup of virtualbox?
Well, depends on you backup/restore strategy. We have 16 active virtual machines. The initial steps on our backup strategy are:
shutdown the virtual machine (ACPI)
backup the directory containing the ...
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How to restore a directory with Bareos/Bacula while excluding deleted files?
For Bareos check out Accurate = in the documention. Even I did not use it so far it should fulfill you needs.
http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#...
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Bacula: Client Run Before Job only al Full level
Solution I found is providing JobLevel to the script as a argument with %l
Client Run Before Job = "/path/to/before/script.sh %l"
Client Run After Job = "/path/to/after/script.sh %l"
and ...
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ldconfig creating bad symlink
According to my research, the (mis-)behaviour of ldconfig is triggered by the content of the file libbaccats-stub-9.0.6.so, specifically its SONAME field:
ts@xenon:~> objdump -p /usr/lib64/...
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Enable hardware encryption in Bacula with LTO-7
I was able to get this to work with the use of a tape library, by modifying the autochanger script to set the encryption key after each tape had been loaded into the drive.
I did this by modifying /...
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Certificate validation error with Bareos and TLS
NB: As of Bareos version 18.2, TLS is enabled by default, but the server is backwardly compatible with older clients.
Please try these things:
Change the client address on the server (in bareos-dir....
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Bacula simple exclusion not working
After a lot of fiddling I got it working with the below:
FileSet {
Name = "MyFileSet"
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
Exclude = yes
WildDir = "*/\.cache"
WildDir = ...
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Segmentation fault of Bacula on Apline Linux
The issue is resolved in the fresh musl-1.2.3-r0 at April 7, 2022 (still in Edge branch)
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How to compress a directory, using tar, and then delete the directory it compressed?
Testing in my machine, the && worked very well in this case
tar -czf bkp-mydir-${date}.tar.gz mydir/ && rm -rf mydir/
You'll also need to use variable interpolation with the $date var....
1
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bacula virtual full backup
Found more infos here: https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/en/main/Migration_Copy.html#SECTION003001000000000000000
Virtual full is treated as migration/copy so is a sd to sd operation. Those types ...
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Bareos: concurrent backup tasks of different priority?
Bareos is capable of running backups simultaneously. To do so all you need to do is add:
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = X
in the Director's configuration file(s) in the Director, Job, Client, and ...
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Fiber tape changer missing on lsscsi
I just found out that, on the Library Type configuration on the TL are two options: Random and Sequential. I've changed it to sequential, thinking that it was going to force the Library to use the ...
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Bacula Backup: Keep files from x days back
If you want to physically delete the jobs and so the files older than 21 days, you can play with the volume retention.
If you only use the job retention, bacula will not delete the old files in the ...
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Bad response to Storage command - wanted 2000 got 2800 - Job TermCode=69
Option 1 - Configuration error
Firstly, have you done a restore before with this configuration? I have a "RestoreFiles" job to make this work which looks like this:
Job {
Name = "RestoreFiles"
...
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Bacula versions compatibility
The problem was solved after upgrading storage daemons to v7.0.5.
We still have some file daemons v5.2.6.
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In smartctl, what does means "Percentage used endurance indicator too short"?
It's probably a bug fixed 6 months ago, more on https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/314.
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What is the diference between volume marked archive and volume marked full?
full means that you cannot write anymore information to it (because it reached quota or just full). on archive means that data has been already archived (deleted from source and are available on ...
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Bareos Backups all files despite of a custom FileSet
The Exclude mechanism in Bareos/Bacula is quite baroque. Your fileset will by default include all files below your specified directory, and *.csv doubly so. This is an instance of Configuration 9.20 ...
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Bacula. Running concurrent job from one linux box
Adding "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" to storage definition in Storages.conf on Badula director and to device definition on bacula-sd resolve this issue.
storages.conf on bacula director
Storage {
Name ...
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bacula catalog backup error
I solved this problem by giving execute permission to user bacula on /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup
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Bacula storage daemon won't write to labeled volume
It's obvious that the listing says
Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
Pool: File
I was able to resolve my problem by labeling another volume using that pool.
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Bacula: When a backup job fails, is it possible to run a different backup job?
In the Job definition,
replace
Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/run_my_job"
by
Console = "run job=my_job yes"
No log is visible in the output of the job, because it is placed on job N°0 (...
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Bacula: When a backup job fails, is it possible to run a different backup job?
I achieved my goal with this Job Resource directive:
Job {
...
RunScript {
Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/run_my_job"
RunsWhen = After
RunsOnFailure = yes
...
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