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Bacula is an open-source network backup system which supports Unix/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems.

Bacula is an open-source network backup system for Unix/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems.
It includes many enterprise-grade features, such as client-server authentication, backup encryption, data spooling, and multi-streaming.

The Open-Source version of Bacula is available from http://www.bacula.org.
A commercial version of Bacula is available from Bacula Systems, and includes support/consulting services and additional functionality.

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How to kill a process with parent 1

I am running Bacula on a RedHat box. From time to time, the storage daemon bacula-sd stops working and becomes . [root@backup ~]# ps -ef | grep defunct | more root 4801 29261 0 09:25 pts/5 00:00:00 grep defunct root 5825 1…
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Bacula alternative?

We currently run Bacula for our network but it seems really overly-complicated for what its doing. Is there a good alternative to Bacula out there that anyone could recommend that runs on Linux and handles both Linux and Windows clients? Or is…
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Tape encryption management & best practices

I want to enable encryption on all of my backup tapes. I more-or-less know how to do this technically, but the procedural and human elements of implementing this are tricky. I use HP LTO4 drives with bacula, which doesn't have any key-management…
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Amanda, Bacula, BackupPC Which has a reliable windows client?

I wish to setup an automated backup system for three Windows XP machines in the same building to a Linux server out on the WAN. I visit each machine every few months and make a disk image for a bare metal recovery. I need a way to automatically…
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Is there An open source de duplication backup solution?

I am looking for a solution for backing up about 30 of my servers that are a mix of centos, windows 2003 and 2008 machines. I have a san in another data center with a 1 Gig link between the sites that im going to be backing up onto so this is purely…
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Amanda versus Bacula and (modern as of 2017) large backup jobs

I am deploying my first tape backup solution (with Quantum Superloader 3 LTO-7, CentOS 6.9), and I am surprised and stymied by the what seems like daunting configuration requirements of both Bacula and Amanda. I am attracted by the philosophical…
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Bacula & Multiple Tape Devices, and so on

Bacula won't make use of 2 tape devices simultaneously. (Search for #-#-# for the TL;DR) A little background, perhaps. In the process of trying to get a decent working backup solution (backing up >20TB ain't cheap, or easy) at $dayjob, we bought a…
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Backup linux to ftp server

What do you use for backups to ftp server? I've tried the setup with Amanda and virtual tapes on the ftp server mounted with Curlftpfs and I'm not satisfied with it. I just don't feel confident about Amanda. Also I cannot use anything that uses…
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How to list all nearest scheduled jobs in bacula bconsole

Is there a way to see all scheduled jobs in bconsol?. You can see the first 30 jobs by executing status dir command in bconsole but how to list all (all nearest). I don't want to see scheduled jobs for all month only all the nearest scheduled jobs.
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How can I set up a dual-site Storage Daemon in Bacula (mirror the backup)

On site A, I have sucessfully set up a bacula director on one host, several File Daemons on the hosts I want to backup, and finally one Storage Daemon where the backup actually is stored. If disaster struck the building Site A, I want a second…
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ldconfig creating bad symlink

I have installed Bacula 7.4.4 on an openSUSE Leap 42.3 System from the repository https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home%3AXimi1970%3AopenSUSE%3AExtra/bacula recommended on https://software.opensuse.org/package/bacula. Those packages use…
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Does bacula transfer data between client and storage daemon, or via director?

We have a bacula server and several storage daemons - a local one on a gigabit network and a remote one in an office that we have a slow link to. We want to back up a remote server on a different network to the remote daemon, but we don't want it…
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Bacula off-site backups

I have 2 locations, one in Europe, one in Asia. Each location has a fully functional Bacula system to handle local backups. What I want to do is to copy some jobs from one location SD to the other location SD. Ideally if I can perform a backup on…
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Moving tapes out of a Bacula pool after media error

We recently ran into a situation where we had 3 volumes in an Error state that were clogging up our 'Default' pool. We have several media pools for different purposes and thus have the Maximum Volumes directive in place so we become aware of…
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Using Bacula as a VTL

I'm considering the idea of using Bacula for some backups, however to save tapes and limit manual operations, I'd like to make a two-stage backup : backup machines to disk (easy enough in bacula) When done, consolidate disk backups on tape. That's…
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