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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 check bacula version

How do I check the bacula version? I installed bacula using apt-get install command on ubuntu. I want to know the version I am using. Thanks
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Bad response to Storage command - wanted 2000 got 2800 - Job TermCode=69

I will try to explain the problem I am facing: When I restore one client's backup that uses two "volumes", I get this error: bacula-dir JobId 48945: Fatal error: Bad response to Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage, got 2800 End Job TermCode=69…
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Bacula. Running concurrent job from one linux box

Hi all i have a strange problem, as bacula documentation i can run two or many concurrent jobs if i set "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" more then 1. And this is work fine for jobs from different servers. But when i have two jobs which does run from one…
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Bacula: best practise for labeling and initial start

I'm currently starting with bacula for backup and have a few questions for best practices. Current situation: I want to back up a slow changing max. 12TB (currently 8TB) dataset to a external LTO4 drive. Due to the small incremental changes I…
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Why keep full and incremental backups in different pools?

I have just started using Bacula and it is great, one tutorial I read recommended putting full backups in a different pool (disk) to incremental backups. What would the benefit of sperating full and incremental backups like this be? What pool would…
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Bacula use variable to reuse FileSet Resource

I have several environments of the same application in different servers. The directory structure is very similar, so I'd like to use one single FileSet for all of them. For example: - server1: /opt/env1/app/logs - server1: /opt/env1/app/bin -…
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Bacula is backing up more files than it should

I have bacula set up in my small network, and for linux machines, it seems to be working fine. I just configured a windows client, and the problem that I'm having is that when the job runs for the windows client, it backs up more than it should be.…
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Bacula -- splitting volumes?

I've been utilizing Bacula for backups. I implemented the system and it works great! However, one of the things I did was just have everything fall under one volume. I decided that I wanted to complicate it just a little bit so that Incrementals…
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projects or packages to emulate a tape drive with a Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift compatible backend?

I've got some data that is being backed up to tape via bacula, and at some point soon I am going to need to migrate to non-tape storage. Bacula supports to-disk archiving, but it occurred to me that if only there was some virtual tape library…
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Bacula vs. BackupPC

I have been googling about the differences between them. Bacula has lots of roles BackupPC is easier to configure Bacula works with agent, not rsync (great for Windows backups) It seems that Bacula is most often compared to Amanda though, while…
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Ideal backup appliance for backup software like Bacula?

I'm at a small company and we (the IT department of two) manage <100 client computers and a handful of servers. Currently we're using a company's appliance to handle backup; it does a small backup every night and a full backup every weekend, and a…
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Certificate validation error with Bareos and TLS

I have Bareos 17.2.4-9 installed on Debian Jessie. It was built from the source using the --with-openssl switch. It works perfectly WITHOUT TLS enabled, however when I try to configure it to use TLS, I get ... # bconsole Connecting to Director…
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Bareos: concurrent backup tasks of different priority?

I am running Bareos 17.2.4 (latest free release). The default configuration will schedule a full backup of all clients on the first Saturday each month, and incremental backups from Monday to Friday. Unfortunately I have so many clients that the…
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Enable hardware encryption in Bacula with LTO-7

Does Bacula support encryption by using the AES-chip which is integrated in LTO-7 Tapedrive? Or is there a plugin like "stenc" that could be integrated in Bacula?
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Backup Linux to Windows Remote Site

We have two sites, one linux (Ubuntu) based, the other windows based which we would like to connect permently over VPN (using openVPN). We need to backup some files on a number of linux (Ubuntu) servers to the windows Server at a remote site. I'm…
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