Questions tagged [bacula]

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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bacula-dir failed at start

I want to install/config a backup-server by useing Bacula. I've installed and configured everything with the help of Bacula Tutorial Now I tried to start the bacular director (bacula-dir) but nothing happens. In debug-mode (bacula-dir -d 200) I…
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Bacula bconsole - Director authorization fail (localhost)

Hi! I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS And my bacula services: $ service --status-all | grep bacula [ + ] bacula-director [ + ] bacula-fd [ + ] bacula-sd Bacula release 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) -- ubuntu 14.04 Bacula director cofig: Director { …
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s3fs with bacula backups - transport end not connected

I'm using s3fs 1.7.3 with fuse 2.9.5 to store backup tapes for the backup system bacula. What I find is that when bacula finishes backing up one server, I'll get an S3FS error on the directory where I have bacula's virtual backup tapes mounted…
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bacula chooses wrong storage on restore

I have Bacula server that uses 2 storages. I'm trying to restore file with the steps root@archive:/etc/bacula/clients# bconsole Connecting to Director 1.1.1.1:9101 1000 OK: archive.blablabla Version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) Enter a period to…
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Bacula - Understand a schedule

I'm studying bacula and I need to understand this schedule: Schedule { Name = Daily Run = Full 1st sun at 00:05 Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 00:05 Run = Incremental mon-sat at 00:05 } And this is what I understand: There's a…
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How to install webacula 7 on centos 7

this is a tutorial to install webacula 7 (after bacula 7 with mysql) this is the tutorial for centos+bcula that i used (without webmin…
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What password(s) go in the bacula client's /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf?

I have Bacula 7.0.5 server running on CentOS 7 and I'm trying to configure clients and add them to the server's config using Webmin. The first question is, can I expect Debian clients using bacula-client 5.2.6+dfsg-9 to work reliably with Bacula…
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How to select an option with putty via ssh

How do I select yes or no? see screenshoot here I'm using ssh with putty. It should be tab key to switch between the options but it's not working. In this case it's the removal of bacula and I had the same issue when installing. The client is Putty…
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Problems Updating Bacula (`GLIBC_2.8' not found (required by /usr/bin/dpkg))

I have a server with Debian Lenny and Bacula 2.2.8 installed. I decided to update the bacula. I tried to follow several tutorials I found on the web but ended with this error "GLIBC_2.11' not found" after I execute a apt-get -f install to install…
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Generating configuration files using puppet and foreman

I'm trying to push parameters from foreman to my puppet class to generate configuration file. Eeach file should be like this: file1 DB_USERNAME=toto DUMP_TYPE=full [...] file2 DB_USERNAME=toto DUMP_TYPE=full [...] I define a parameter in Foreman…
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String comparison between postgresql and log

We have one database full of strings of type: Cannot write block. Device at EOM. dev=$device ($device_path) And then, we have our program which generates log entries, like, for example 2013-10-10 15:37:07program-sd JobId 50345: Fatal error:…
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Bacula search for a file using sql query

I often need to find a file in bacula catalog to restore, but don't know the path or the jobid it was backed up in, nor the full name of the file, just a portion of the name. Optimal solution would be an sql search in bacula catalog. I tried all…
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Issue with backups failing on Bacula

I'm new to Bacula, and I've inherited an environment that was already setup and deployed. Recently one of our servers that we have always backed up crashed and was deemed no longer of any use, so I was tasked to remove it from the client list, which…
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Command to know what was mounted in a folder

I have a folder on my server that mounts volumes of a FreeNAS via the iSCSI protocol. I need to mount these same folders on another server but I can't figure out how they were mounted because the naming in FreeNAS and the folders are…
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script from cron doesn't run

I have a script: -rwx------. 1 root root 135 Oct 15 12:00 /backup/purge.sh #!/bin/bash volume=`echo "list volumes" | bconsole|grep -i "Append\|Full"|awk '{print $4}'` echo "purge volume=$volume yes" | bconsole If I run it manually it runs. If I…
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