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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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Two-site disk based backup with migration in Bacula

I am setting up a disk based (vchanger) backup system in Bacula, whereby at any given time, two sets of identical data will reside on the disks. One set of disks will be stored on-site, the other taken off-site. I've decided the easiest way to do…
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Bacula backup with secondary storage on poor conection

We use hetzner dedicated servers for virtualization (xen). Each instance got a 100GB free sftp backup storage, buing more is not an option - it's too expensive. Currently we use bacula and mount this storage with fuse, so SD can use it. Such…
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Bacula daemon fails to stop or restart

Foreword: I have already resolved this problem and am asking this question to share the solution I've found. Please bear in mind that the problem described here may (or may not) be more generic and could apply not only to Bacula but to other…
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Is there an equivalent of volume space reclamation in Bacula?

I recently met a guy using Tivoli Storage Manager. He talked about "volume reclamation", which copies only the files of incremental backup which are newer than the retention period/number of version we want to keep. As a result, it is possible to…
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Which is the right synthax for restoring on Windows from Bacula?

I have a full backup of a Windows 2008 R2-64bit. This server has two disks, C: and D:. I'm too dumb to explain to Bacula (5.2.6) I want that what is labelled as "d:/" has to be restored to "D:\". I have read the docs, googled a lot, experimented all…
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Bacula: initial Full Backup job taking too much time

I've chosen Bacula (v.5.0.2) to do backups of our office worker's data. The Director and Storage Daemon run on a Debian based root server (the SERVER) rented from a major german hosting company. All the precious data and therefore Bacula's File…
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Bacula director daemon unable to authenticate windows 7 client

My director daemon in being hosted on an ubuntu machine and the client is a windows 7 machine. Both machines are on the same subnet. I'm having trouble authenticating between the server and the client. The error I get on the server side is as…
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Unable to telnet to a Windows 7 client on port 9102 while setting up Bacula

I'm trying to setup Bacula for all my work machines. Most of my machines are Linux (Ubuntu) based and I have successfully managed to setup Bacula on those machines. However, I do have several Windows 7 machines as well and I'm unable to connect to…
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How get the label of the currently inserted tape?

I would like to design a debug script that outputs the Bacula's label of the tape currently inserted in the tape loaders and to send the result into Opsview if required. should those be mounted or not. (?) How can i get the label of the currently…
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Spreading full backup load on 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd strategy with Bacula but not sure of director config

I am using Bacula to connect to servers remotely (in a different DC) and backup. Due to speed constraints and no bogging the office network down during the day, I dont see it is feasible to perform a full backup of our 4 servers at the same time, so…
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remove bacula client from server

whats the best practice for this? sure i can delete the config, but i also want the client out of the clients-table within the databasebackend of the server. should i delete from the database ? (in my case mysql) (but shouldn't bacula handle this…
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Bacula backup on Linux, restore on FreeBSD

I'd like to migrate my storage server from Linux (Debian) to FreeBSD. Biggest part of this is restoring backups saved on Linux to tape volumes on the newly installed FreeBSD. Unfortunately I don't have anywhere to test this on at the moment but I'd…
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Strategies for making bacula file volumes compatible with rsync?

How would we setup bacula so that it creates file volumes in a manner where the volume names (labels) are predictable and things work well with rsync so that we're not sending massive amounts of data across the wire? General strategy would be to…
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Can you point multiple pools at the same device in bacula?

If you want to have multiple pools for purposes of different retention levels for full / diff / incremental, can you point them all at the same storage device? When each pool goes to do its retention / purge / prune thing using the settings in the…
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Problems Restoring From Old Tapes with Bacula

I'm trying to restore an asterisk directory from an old tape. In bacula, I unmount the current tape, take it out, stick the old tape in, mount LTO-2 and it gives this: 3001 Device "LTO-2" (/dev/nst0) is mounted with Volume "Default-3" So it's…
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