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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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is it advisable to perform a catalog/database backup with RunAfterJob and store catalog backup history?

I read how important it is to have an updated catalog backup for bacula This is my solution while setting up a full/incremental/differential archive backup job: RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog" RunAfterJob = "mv…
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bacula: is file deleted after file retention period is passed?

volume retention period is set to 365 days job retention period is set to 180 days file retention period is set to 60 days if file is unchanged on drive for 60 days, will I be able to recover it after 60 days? if file is deleted from backup after…
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Bug Workaround - Bacula won't prune old copied data

Bacula Copy jobs add the date of the copy as the job date and volume date rather than the date the original file was backed up. For this example, let's assume the simplest to illustrate. Full backups, one per month, one per volume. This creates a…
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Bacula : How start multiple jobs at the same time?

I'm using the web interface baculum of bacula and I have a question : When i want to run a job manually, I press the button "run job" but I can start only one job. But I have a group of 5 jobs that I want to run at the same time. Did you know if we…
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Bacula tape library and SCSI device kernel NULL pointer

I was trying to run a bacula restore, but it complained about remote-sd communication. Turned out bacula-seed was not running on host machine. Service was started, but the issue still persisted. That's why I tried to test the tape library by running…
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Bacula - disc backup GFS-scheme "hole"

I have a question about implementing the GFS-scheme with bacula on a harddrive(the deamons already work fine). What I want to accomplish: Every half year i want a full-backup that should be accessable for at least 12months -> i need to keep the…
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Bacula Backup: Keep files from x days back

I try to setup Bacula as backup solution. The requirement is to take daily full backups and to keep 20 last jobs, jobs for example 21 days back to be deleted. So in case of recovery to be able to go 20 days back, how I can do this ? Thank you a…
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Install and configure Bacula on Debian 6.0.0

I installed Debian version 6.0.0 and I want to configure it as network backup solution using bacula, so I need someone help me to do that. Also, should I add this server to my domain?
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