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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 can I write Bacula's bootstrap files on a remote machine?

Have this in configuration of jobs: JobDefs { Name = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = "SERVER_1" FileSet = "Full Set" Schedule = "Month-each-day cycle at 21:00" Storage = "ubuntu-station" Messages = Standard …
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Possible to simulate a NDMP backup?

I like to try Amanda's and Bacula's NDMP backup features, but I don't wan't to try it out on the live NAS, just yet. Ideally would I like to find out which that suites me best, and get familiar with before trying to make a real NDMP backup from the…
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How to change where Bacula stores backup volumes?

The easiest way is to give an idea of desired file structure: each backed up client is a subdirectory of /bak e.g. /bak/client1/ /bak/client2/ then within each client subdirectory Bacula Storage server should automatically create Volumes with…
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Best practices for mass file transfer with verification?

I'm looking for a bit of advice on transferring a several files from Windows-based workstations to a Linux Server running Ubuntu Server LTS 10.04. At the moment I've been mounting the shares on the Linux box and rsyncing them, but I'm not sure if…
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Bacula windows client could not connect to Bacula director

I have a Bacula server on my Linux Debian squeeze host (Bacula version 5.0.2) and a Bacula client on Windows XP SP3. On my network each client can see each other, can share files and can ping. On my local server I could run bconsole and the server…
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install bacula director / server on windows?

Looking over the bacula.org site, I see several places where it implies it IS possible to run bacula director or server on Windows. I saw mention that the windows client installer should allow it to be installed. I found some documentation that…
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Bacula over s3fs

We are constantly running out of space on our backup server so I want to move the backups to S3. Does it make sense to run Bacula on top of s3fs? Does anybody have experience with that? Is it reliable? What about bandwidth use? Can I expect s3fs to…
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Should I backup /var/lib/bacula/bacula.db?

I'm trying to figure out why I need so much space for backups using Bacula with SQLite and I've noticed this file: /var/lib/bacula/bacula.db measuring above 500MiB on all the directors. I presume that file also changes every time I run a backup,…
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Could not stat /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql: ERR=No such file or directory

When running the BackupCatalog job in my Bacula installation it throws the following warning: Could not stat /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql: ERR=No such file or directory I've run this manually: /etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup bacula…
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Bacula - skip folders that exceed a certain size

What would be the easiest way to automatically skip the backup of subfolders that use more space than a certain limit? A solution that also sends a notification would get first prize!
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What options to use for Accurate bacula backup?

It's actually 2 question in one. First is a bit more theoretically. So when specifying accurate options how does bacula figure out if a file needs to be backed up ? it's a simple AND ? As in if the options are Accurate = sm5 bacula will not backup…
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Pause bacula-director

Is there a way to tell bacula to stop queuing new jobs from the schedule, but finish the ones that are currently running?
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Dell External SAS 5/E HBA and Hyper-V

I have a Dell R710 running Win2008 R2 + Hyper-V with dual SAS 5/E HBA's. I'm building a Linux VM to install Bacula on and I need to connect it to my Dell PowerVault 124T via the SAS HBA. I've been doing some looking online and I have yet to find a…
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"Append only" file attribute triggers incremental backup of file

"Append only" attribute set with this command chattr -R +a /mnt/A causes bacula to keep incrementally backing up files, even if they did not change. I was able to determine this by comparing the files+folder count of attributes +a with the count of…
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Bacula Storage error

Need some help, with bacula. I delete all volumes at pool and delete file of pool from host (Vol--). Also delete jobs from Job list. Delete by BAT. To avoid mistakes create a new pool and storage. After that all running jobs, get…
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