3rd_party_addons

h Bacuview A Ruby on Rails based status monitor. Almir (web written in Python) Demo: Documentation: brestore

application_specific_backups

Normally, Bacula backs up a file simply by reading its contents and various attributes. In the case of certain applications, however, this will not produce a consistent snapshot that can be used to bring the application back up later. The most common example of this is live databases, where the files on disk may be in an intermediate state, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MS Exchange.

bacula_espanol

Bacula Español Resumen Básicamente somos un grupo de usuarios que nos ayudamos entre si, discutiendo y aportando ideas por correo electrónico. Para participar en dicho grupo de usuarios, debes de suscribir a la lista de correo “Bacula Español” en este enlace.

bacula_manual

This manual is currently being updated by Baylink (et al) to conform to v5.0. Contributions are encouraged, particularly those by people who know the new version well, and can confirm or correct CHECKME and FIXME spots. (Please Contribute: Pick a topic, turn it into a link, write up the topic from scratch or copy it from the Official Bacula manual and update it.)

bat

New screenshot! A more advanced file version selection dialog. These screenshots were all taken from the SVN repository on June 27 2007. Bat is still under development at this time, so be aware that anything you see here is subject to change.

bat_new

See which volumes Bacula knows about. The list also shows important volume attributes, which can be essential for the backup operator. Volumes are organized in Pools, and represented in a tree view in this display. [Volume listing] The list of jobs that Bacula ran includes some information about the jobs themselves, but also allows quick access to related information, as well as to operate on those jobs (like deleting a job). Also, you can initiate a restore of selected jobs.

blueprints

This is an index page for discussions about Bacula feature requests, called “blueprints”. Typically the primary page for each blueprint will be on the Bacula LaunchPad site. These pages exist to hold any required discussions, explanations, accompanying documents, etc. In the case of a status conflict between this page and the LaunchPad page, the LaunchPad page should be considered the canonical source.

chekh

I have used Bacula since about v2.0 with the following tape libraries: Dell PowerVault 128t (SCSI, one LTO-1 drive, 20 slots), SpectraLogic T120 (SCSI, two LTO-3 drives, 50 slots), IBM TS3310 (SAS, three LTO-4 drives, 116 slots). No hw-related problems except my current performance problems with the LTO-4 drives.

commercial_support

Several companies are able to provide commercial support contracts or consulting for Bacula. Add your company to the list below if you are one of them. * Adamant System - Professional open-source support organization based in Malaysia. We deploy and support Bacula, as well as other enterprise-level OSS. * Album Limited * Alixen (French) * Alunys (Belgian) * Bacula Systems - Professional support organization specifically for Bacula. Founded by Bacula lead developer, Kern Sibbald. (Swis…

comparisons

Believe it or not, there actually are backup solutions other than Bacula out there! This page is intended to help give you an idea of how Bacula stacks up against these other packages. Feel free to add features or other backup solution you're familiar with. If an entry is blank, that means the answer wasn't known, so please go ahead and fill it in if you know. This page is intended to be an honest comparison, not just Bacula advertisement, so don't worry about including areas where Bacula co…

database_statistics

New users considering switching to Bacula are often curious about how large other Bacula installations are: how many clients, how much data is being backed up, how large the catalog database gets, etc. While such questions usually get one or two people answering, I thought it would be nice to try and generate a quantitative set of data to give people a clearer picture.

faq

This is where new FAQ items can be quickly added. Note that you should also make sure to read the published FAQ at There is a interesting wiki documentation project called Baculapedia, at:

freebsd_bare_metal_recovery

* FreeBSD Disaster Preparedness & Planning * FreeBSD Bare Metal Recovery - Client

freebsd_bare_metal_recovery_-_client

The following are the instructions for performing a full bare metal recovery of a FreeBSD client. I modified the instructions found in the official Bacula documentation. Alex Torres provided the original documentation with additions made by Jesse Guardiani and Dan Langille.

freebsd_disaster_preparedness_planning

Create Static Bacula FD (

german_translation

deutsches Bacula Manual eine immer (halbwegs) aktuelle Version des deutschen Handbuchs ist unter zu finden. open questions and comments: any posts are welcome :) bugs.tex In addition, the file {\bf patches-version-number} in the {\bf patches} directory contains a summary of each of the patches. es gibt keine Datei namens patches-version-number, in patches/ liegen Verzeichnisse und darin patches

getting_devices_recognized_by_solaris

This is actually OS-level help, but I struggled with it when setting up bacula so I thought I'd share my experiences with it. Trying to find the answer really tested my Google-fu. This is not a stone-path how-to, but some pointers in the right direction. It has worked with two different tape libraries installed on two different Solaris hosts. Specifically an old Qualstar TLS4210 and a shiny new (at the time) Quantum SL-3.

handeling_mass-email_reports

problem definition Issue : Bacula is great. It can be very informative what is going on. A nice option is that it can give status reports through logs or by email. No one reads logs unless something suspicious is expected due to a bombardment of info, so email is useful. However too much mail is not informative as it tends not be read and therefor it is not useful anymore. Possible solutions :

handling_mass-email_reports

Problem definition Issue : Bacula is great. It can be very informative what is going on. A nice option is that it can give status reports through logs or by email. No one reads logs unless something suspicious is expected due to a bombardment of info, so email is useful. However too much mail is not informative as it tends not be read and therefor it is not useful anymore. Possible solutions :

hardware_results

Tried a piece of hardware not listed on the official supported hardware list at ? Throw in a comment here, whether it's good, bad, indifferent, or requires a workaround or two. Manufacturer Model Description Media Capacity Autochanger OS Bacula Results Dell (Quantum i500) ML6000 Tape library with optional expansion modules LTO3 400 / 800 GB 36 Slots (expandable in 42-slot increments) Scientific Lin…

herethefirst_title

Hi to all on this homepage its content

hints_tips

* Scheduling Vacation/Holidays * BAT over SSH * BAT over SSH - another approach * Untrusted director - *nix solution * Force status of volumes

horror_stories

Like the stories about wolves told to children to keep them from wandering in the forest along, these stories here are meant as cautionary tales. Told by or about those who have had disasters of accidental deletions, corrupt tapes, and other data loss nightmares, these cautionary tales are meant to help remind you why you keep making and verifying those backup tapes, even if all they ever do is gather dust until they're recycled and reused.

howto_build_deb_binary_packages_and_create_a_package_repository_for_debian_or_ubuntu

Page under construction as of 2009-02-22 The problem: Currently (Feb 2009) distributed binary packages for Debian and Ubuntu do not include use of the openssl package and thus don't include support for encryption. I backup to those really cheap, really easy portable USB drives. The problem is any visitor to your home or office can take that drive with them. They might only take it because they want a cheap, easy portable USB drive, but now they have your data. The answer is to encrypt t…

howto_compile_and_install_bacula_bat_on_ubuntu_or_debian

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Prerequisites The Director, FD and SD are either with MySQL, PSql or SQLite installable via apt-get. Just type in apt-cache search bacula for all packages. Install necessary packages fpr qt4 and qwt. (Maybe not all of the following packages are necessary but by having a large harddisk I don't care.)

howto_compile_and_install_bacula_in_debian_4.0_etch

This HowTo was tested on Debian 4.0 and with bacula ver. 2.2.6 Make sure that the IP of the Bacula server is on the first line (the real IP not 127.0.0.1) # vim /etc/hosts Download and install all dependencies # apt-get install mysql-server gcc libmysqlclient15-dev g++ make libncurses5-dev Download the source file to the root home folder # wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bacula/bacula-2.2.6.tar.gz Extract the compressed files # tar –xvvf bacula-2.2.6.tar.gz Compile the Bacula …

howto_compile_and_install_bacula_on_debian_4.0_etch

This HowTo was tested on Debian 4.0 and with bacula ver. 2.2.6 Make sure that the IP of the Bacula server is on the first line of the Hosts file (the real IP not 127.0.0.1) # vim /etc/hosts Download and install all dependencies # apt-get install mysql-server gcc libmysqlclient15-dev g++ make libncurses5-dev Download the source file and save it to the root home folder you can choose one of the mirrors: Sourceforge - Bacula Download

howto_compile_and_install_bacula_with_bat_on_fedora_7_or_centos_5

Compiling Bacula from source with BAT support on Fedora 7 or CentOS 5. Once you've read the documentation, and are stuck :-\ whilst trying to compile with QWT support, this Howto may help you sort them out. =) # yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server gcc gcc-c++ # export PATH=/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/:$PATH# QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3# QTINC=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include Install qt packages with yum

howto_compile_bacula_client_on_aix

* Prerequisites : IBM C/C++ Compiler, so many problems with GCC and no solution Tested with Bacula 3.0.2, AIX 5.3TL09 and vacpp v10.1 * After unpacking bacula source archive into temporary directory of your choice, set following environment variables :

howto_compile_bacula_in_debain_4.0_etch

This HowTo has been tested on Debian 4.0 and has been compiled with bacula ver. 2.2.6 Make sure that the Bacula server is on the first line and with the real IP (not 127.0.0.1) # vim /etc/hosts Download and install all the dependencies # apt-get install mysql-server gcc libmysqlclient15-dev g++ make libncurses5-dev Download the source file to the root home folder # wget http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bacula/bacula-2.2.6.tar.gz Extract the compressed files # tar –xvvf bacula-2.2.6.…

howto_compile_bacula_in_sco_unixware7

Download binary package from GNU project's official homepage. An execute the following command to install it: # /usr/sbin/pkgadd -d `pwd`/gcc-2.95.pkg This HowTo was extracted from Michele’s blog and modified to compile with bacula ver. 2.2.4 (the last release at the moment).

howto_create_bat_3.0_rpm_on_rhel_5_or_centos_5

RHEL5 (as of 5.3) and its clones have official packages for qt 3.3.6 and qt 4-4.2.1, but these won't work for BAT 3.0. Here is a procedure to create a working BAT 3.0 rpm. If you don't really need them, it is probably best to remove the older versions of qt. This will make debugging the build of BAT easier. Note however that the qt we are going to install will work side-by-side with the older ones if needed. It installs into different directories.

howto_install_and_configure_bacula_on_fedora_9_using_yum

I spent the better part of a day creating this info. I hope someone knows WIKI well enough to clean it up. Working on how to configure jobs next. NOTE: At the current time, using the Default Fedora Repositories presents 2 problems. 1) They are relatively old versions

howto_install_bacula-web_from_centos_5

Bacula-web é uma ferramenta de código aberto cujo projeto começou em 2004, originalmente escrito por Juan Luis Frances, que se encontra atualmente na versão 5.1.0-ALPHA. Esta ferramenta é escrita em PHP, html, css e javascript, e é liberado sob os termos da licença GPL.

howto_install_bacula_5.0.0_from_src.rpm_on_rhel_5_or_centos_5

do a base install of Centos, without openoffice... Now add some more packages. yum install autoconf automake e2fsprogs-devel gcc-c++ glibc-devel glibc-headers kernel-devel krb5-devel libacl-devel libgomp libstdc++-devel libtermcap-devel libxml2-devel lsscsi m4 make mt-st mysql mysql-devel mysql-server ncurses ncurses-devel openssl-devel perl-DBI php php-gettext php-pear qt4 qt4-devel redhat-rpm-config rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-libs screen zlib-devel This list could probably be reduced down, but …

howto_install_bacula_5.0.2_from_src.rpm_on_rhel_5_or_centos_5

To create the RPM packages of Bacula 5.0.2 on CentOS5 or RHEL5, perform this steps: For convenience you can download the script attached to this page. It performs all necessary steps described below. Do a base install of CentOS5 (i386 or x86_64 supported)

howto_install_bacula_5.0.3_from_src.rpm_on_rhel_6

This document is based on The previous bacula rhel wiki howtos. To create the RPM packages of Bacula 5.0.3 on RHEL 6.0, or Scientific Linux 6.0, perform this steps: yum install autoconf automake e2fsprogs-devel gcc-c++ glibc-devel glibc-headers krb5-devel libacl-devel libgomp libstdc++-devel libtermcap-devel libxml2-devel m4 make mysql mysql-devel mysql-server ncurses ncurses-devel openssl-devel perl-DBI php readline-devel redhat-rpm-config rpm-build screen zlib-devel * Download bacula-5.0.3-1…

howto_upgrade_win32_bacula_file_daemons_through_smb_cifs

If you have access to your Windows machines remotely, you can use RPC to control the Bacula service and SMB/CIFS to push the Bacula-FD files to the clients. An example script and some documentation on how to do it is included in the Bacula sources under examples/upgrade-win32-client.txt

howto_upgrade_win32_bacula_file_daemons_with_ocs_inventory_ng

If you already have OCS Inventory NG deployed and the Bacula-FD installed on your Windows clients, here's how to upgrade your Bacula-FDs First you need to create a self-extracting package that automatically runs (you could also use this one with other deployment tools). Here is an example NSIS script you could use to generate an automated installer:

howtos

Compile and Install * HOWTO_Compile_Bacula_in_SCO_UnixWare7 * HOWTO Compile and install Bacula on Debian 4.0 Etch * HOWTO Compile and install Bacula 5.03 on Debian 5.0 Lenny * HOWTO Professional backups running Bacula 3.0.3 on Debian 5.0 "Lenny" (detailed step-by-step howto in German) * HOWTO Bacula 3.0.3 web interface bweb on Debian 5.0 "Lenny" Howto (in addition to the howto above) * HOWTO Install and Configure Bacula 2.4.4 under Debian Lenny - Beginners Guide (german) * HOWTO C…

manual_corrections

This page indicates manual corrections which need to be applied to CVS. ---------- - indicates that MySQL 4.1.12 should not be run in ANSI compatibility mode. If “SELECT @@global.sql_mode;” and “SELECT @@session.sql_mode;” will both return empty when not running in compatibility mode.

manual_translations

* Český překlad * German Translation

mysql

Yet another way to back up MySQL 1. Introduction 1.1 Copyright And License This document, Yet another way to back up MySQL is copyrighted © 2009 by Kevin Keane. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at

nagios

Monitoring Bacula with Nagios 1. Introduction 1.1 Copyright And License This document, Monitoring Bacula with Nagios is copyrighted © 2009 by Kevin Keane. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at

nagios_active_checks

Monitoring Bacula with Nagios (active checks) 1. Introduction The goal is to see whether all the backups in Bacula have been successfully completed within some period of time (eg. past 24 hours). 2. What you need * Bacula server * NRPE * NRPE plugin check_bacula.pl * Nagios - may be on a separate host

pebuilder_plugin

Until there is a pebuilder or bartpe plugin in the official release again you will have to build yourself one. Here is how. It isn't difficult. Step 1 Install winbacula-2.2.4.exe from here Winbacula install pebuilder from here PEBuilder Step 2 Create a new folder in the plugins folder of your pebuilder installation named “bacula” or whatever you want. For simplicity I assume you named it bacula.

removable_disk

Bacula And Removable Disk HOWTO Josh Fisher Revision History Revision 0.9.1 2009-10-27 * Vchanger is now an open source project hosted at SourceForge at . The most recent howto is included in the source tarball.

sample_configs

This page is for people to post sample configurations for particularly tricky or usefull setups. This can include unusual hardware setups, or complicated schedules, for example. In the Debian manner * Create a conf.d directory mkdir /etc/bacula/conf.d

spain_translation

Instalar Bacula Requerimientos para instalar bacula-2.2.5 gcc g++ ( La instalacion en debian etch el binario es g++4.2.1, configure no lo encuentra porque busca g++, asi que un enlace simbolico de g++4.2.1 a g++) libncurses-dev libmysql++-dev Instalar

sshtunnel

Using an SSH tunnel with Bacula 1. Introduction 1.1 Copyright And License This document, Using an SSH tunnel with Bacula is copyrighted © 2009 by Kevin Keane. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is available at

start

This is the wiki for Bacula. Bacula is heavy-duty backup software that is cross-platform, free software/open source and network-savvy. The wiki supplements the existing extensive documentation on Bacula. When looking for information, be sure to check out the full manual as well as this wiki.

tapealert

It would be nice if Bacula would warn you for faulty tapes, drive errors or when the tapedrive needs cleaning. Bacula features the Alert command. Unfortunately there are some drawbacks: * Documentation is limited to the Bacula manual; there are no samples of it's usage * it does not work, well, at least in my setup it does not. Having a single slot tapedrive with automounting Bacula claims the drive so other programs are blocked due to a lock.

terminologie

Terminologie Administrátor - Osoba či osoby zodpovědné za administraci systému Bacula. Archive (archivace) je operace prováděná po uložení (Save) a sestává z vyjmutí svazků, na nichž jsou data uložena z aktivního využívání. Tyto svazky jsou označeny jako Archived a nesmí být nadále používána k ukládání souborů. Všechny soubory uložené na archivním svazku jsou vyjmuty z katalogu. DOSUD NEIMPLEMENTOVÁNO.

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versions_compatibility

Important: also check the Frequently Asked Questions Supplement The following Bacula versions are still in use today so it seems: * Bacula 1.3x (1.38) * Bacula 2.x (2.4.x) * change of protocol 2.x --> 3.x * Bacula 3.x (3.0.x) * Bacula 5.x (5.0.x)

windows_7_64-bit_fd_and_file_examined_0

There is a forum post that resolves this problem. What is suggests is that remove address configuration from bacula-sd.conf file.

windows_bare_metal_recovery

There are currently three different methods reported to work for rebuilding a Windows system from bare metal. * BartPE * NTBackup * Windows 2008/Vista using ERD

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