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Bacula is a set of Open Source, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds

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Bacula is a set of Open Source, computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. In technical terms, it is an Open Source, network based backup program.

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Bareos Postgres Plugin NOT backing up remote PostgreSQL13 database

I've installed Bareos 20.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.3 according to their documentations here. I'm trying to backup a remote PostgreSQL database and apparently, there are three possible scenarios and the pros of the PostgreSQL Plugin (third solution), makes…
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How to back up a huge file with Bacula?

It currently is 700MB but it's conceivable that it'll grow beyond the 1GB. Normally I just copy this file to another location (for the curious, it's the database of a Zope instance, a ZODB file). This file changes little from day to day, but I…
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Bacula: Director's connection to SD for this Job was lost

SD-7.4.4 (ubuntu 16) Director-7.4.4(ubuntu 16) FD-5.2.10 (windows) I'm having trouble backing up windows clients with Bacula. I can run a backup just fine when the backup size is around 1MB or 2 but when running a backup of 500MB, I get the same…
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How to use TCP Wrappers with Bacula?

I have a Bacula server running, which happily backs itself up. I'm now connecting up remote clients with standalone File Daemons and having trouble with TCP Wrappers. I'm finding that the connection (with telnet/nc etc) connects but is immediately…
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Bacula/Bareos disaster recover from scratch using bextract

On Bacula/Bareos, document stress the importance of Catalog bootstrap file must be save on somewhere safe, I know Catalog consist of MySQL DB dump and optional included Bacula/bareos config file, but how exactly does anyone recover from scratch in…
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Bacula libs3 make show compiling error 127

I am testing various backup tools in my company, and currently I am in the process of configuring and installing Bacula on Ubuntu server 21.10. I have successfully installed bacula, checked the status of the services and they are all correctly…
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Base64 and non standard

I try to create a python client for bacula, but I have some problem with the authentication. The algorithm is : import hmac import base64 import re ... challenge = re.search("auth cram-md5 ()", data) #exemple '' passwd =…
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Bacula console - nothing happens after connecting

I'm learning how to use bacula, and I followed the instructions from here to configure it. Now my problem is that I enter in my debian linux terminal sudo bconsole Then I get Connecting to Director 127.0.0.1:9101 and then nothing happens!!!! I…
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How to erase the data on the tapes of the bacula

I'm using bacula as backup tool, but as I am not responsible for the process does not know how to reset the tapes to start over.
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webacula - blank screen

I have a blank screen while installing webacula and I can't figure out why. -the login to the mysql database is correct -Zend library added -webacula.conf is in /etc/apache2 but returns : apache2: Syntax error on line 265 of…
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How to write a script for backup using bacula?

I am very new to this shell scripting and bacula. I want to create a script that schedules the backup using bacula? How to do that? Any lead is appreciated? Thanks.
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Prevent security-query in bacula scripting

I'm trying to script bacula to delete old files that are not used any more. While there are over 1000 old files im not willing to do it manualy. How far I've come for filename in $(echo "list volume" |bconsole |grep Purged |awk -F\| '{print…
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bacula Device File: is not open. Device is BLOCKED

We are trying to set up Bacula. We have a node that runs Bacula server, a node that is being backed up, and a third node where the backup data is stored. From the log file, the job is successfully created, storage target connection is set and…
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Retention Fail with Bareos

I am encountering backup disk saturation issues in production. Directory to backup = 400Go Backup disk = 2To Scheduling: A Full backup every 2 days An Incremental backup every hour Retention duration of 2 days I have recreated these issues in…
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Bacula won't clear volumes automatically

Bacula 11.0.5 Centos 7 When all volumes are full, Bacula does not clear the volume Log show repeats pruning with no success bacula-production-dir JobId 2075: Pruning oldest volume "Vol-MonthlyPool-1091" bacula-production-dir JobId 2075: Found no Job…
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