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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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Bacula storage daemon won't write to labeled volume

My Bacula configuration won't write to any labeled volume, as long as it's outside of /tmp. When the SD is configured to write to /tmp however, everything works flawlessly. [herpderp@neuromediator2 home]$ ls -lah total 8.0K drwxr-xr-x. 4 root …
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Distinct Bacula FileSet options per directory

Let's say I have a Bacula FileSet containing: Include { Options { checkfilechanges=yes onefs = yes # and other irrelevant options here } File = / } Generally I think having checkfilechanges=yes is a good thing,…
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Bacula batch restore a client with multiple filesets

I am looking for a way to perform a batch (non interactive) restore for a Client that has multiple job definitions which don't share the same file set. For a client that has a single fileset I can issue a restore client="example.eu" jobid=99,152…
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How to handle migrated job in bacula

In our existing backup, we clone a backup to two different tapes by doing backup to a disk pool then copy and migrate the jobs to two different tape pools. However, after migration, the jobs which had been migrated are still occupying the disk…
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Bacula tape changing

How can I get Bacula to move the tape to the IO slot after it has ran a specific job? I run daily backups with Bacula since a couple of days and I was wondering if I can do this kind of thing. I've already specified the UseVolumeOnce = yes directive…
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Bacula not using the current In-Drive LTO Tape (but the oldest one)

I'm trying to configure Bacula to automatically recycle and use a random tape i put in the single LTO drive, but it seems to prefer the oldest backup tape despite it isn't in the drive. I already marked all tapes as "Used" and ensure the retention…
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bacula backups very slow with TCP socket in 'unkn-4' state

Several bacula-fd clients are backing up to one bacula SD (using 2G disk files on massive RAID, not tape), usually 2-3 of them concurrently. It works fine, except when 2 bigger clients (about 400-900GB each) need to run full backups, which get…
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Unable to backup Windows directory using Bacula

Backup and restore works on Linux Bacula's Director (DIR), File Daemon (FD) and Storage Daemon (SD) have been installed on a Linux host, a backup has been run and the files could be restored. Backup fails on Windows The next step is to backup files…
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Bacula Loading Tape at the Wrong Library

I have two HP Tape Libraries installed on the Storage (LibHP08 and LibHP09), i tried to configure some jobs to access both libraries, but I'm having some trouble with bacula accessing the wrong library. For example, bacula tries to access volume…
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Bacula Backups Failing with Duplicate Primary Key Error

All of my Bacula backups started failing over the weekend with the following MySQL error: Fatal error: sql_create.c:XXX Fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex,…
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bacula - client choose backup content

I would be interested to deploy bacula as my backup solution. My drawback so far is that I haven't found how/if is possible for a client to determine what he wants to be backed up. My understanding is that this must be defined inside Director and…
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Bacula virtual backup job doesn't run, no output?

I am trying to get Virtual Backups working, but when I try to run a virtual backup job, it appears to get created, but then never seems to actually run. I have a full, and a couple incremental backups. status director JobId Level Files …
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Is it possible to prune only out of date files and jobs from a Bacula volume?

Our setup of Bacula uses a file device for storage, but we only have one volume. It's 6TB, and it's about to run out of space. The goal of the configuration it to purge jobs and files in the volume that are past retention, but not to delete the…
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Bacula stops writing to disk volume after 2GB

Bacula Version: 5.2.5 I have configured bacula to write volumes to disk, however bacula stops writing to the volume as soon as it reaches 2gb. The file system is not an issue as I have stored files larger than 2gb. 06-Dec 17:22 backup-sd JobId…
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Setting up a bacula file-based volume retention policy?

We're trying to make heads or tails out of our Bacula setup. We have a SD (storage daemon) server with a few LVM logical volumes and we're trying to do full/diff/incr backups to it in a sensible manner. The problems is that Bacula constantly…
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