Bacula – copying a job; doing it better I recently wrote about Bacula’s Copy job option. In that solution, I used an approach which copied all uncopied jobs from disk to tape. I’ve found a few annoyances with that initial approach and now I’m experimenting with a new approach. An added side-effect: less wear on …
Bacula – copying a job Don’t be fooled by Bacula. Although it is by far the most downloaded Open Source backup program, don’t be intimidated by it. Bacula can handle backing up your single machine, or your entire enterprise. According to SourceForge statistics, Bacula is by far the most downloaded backup software. I’ve been using …
Bacula: RunBeforeJob on Storage Daemon This article deals with a particular Bacula directive: RunAfterJob This directive, part of a Job resource, is used to run a command after the job completed. In my case, I am collecting statistics regarding tape errors. The directive has many options, including: run before or after the Job run on …
Testing the DLT Now that my tape labels have arrived, it’s time to run those tapes through Bacula. In this article, you’ll see: a list slots command fail a command line mtx-changer command fail the fix via device permissions a label barcodes fail a script to test tapes Oh, that script isn’t actually in this …
DLT labels The new labels are in! On Wednesday of last week, I ordered some labels from get-it-low on eBay. They shipped on Thursday, and they arrived today (Monday). The item is listed as New Quantum ATL SDLT DLT Bar Code Labels Tag 6210201-02 and sold for $9.99 plus $5.84 shipping, for a total of …
Where is my SCSI card? At the start of the month, Jerry was over helping me to add more HDD to my Bacula Storage Daemon. As part of that process, I moved my tape library from my Bacula server over to the Storage Daemon. This required the transfer of a SCSI card from one machine …
Integrating the Tape Library with an existing Bacula installation In a recent article, I wrote about how to setup the various tools, such as mtx-changer, to allow your tape library to work with Bacula. In this article, I’ll show how I integrated this tape library into my existing Bacula configuration. Given the previous work, I …
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Tape Libraries & Bacula I am attempting to revive a long unused-tape library. I want it active so I can go away on holiday and not worry about changing tapes. At present, I use a single DLT-7000 drive, which needs a new tape every three or four days. My strategy includes filling each tape, then …
Bacula – Transport Layer Security (TLS) Bacula is a very robust and feature-rich network backup solution. Whether you are backing up two computers or two hundred, Bacula can do it. Backup solutions are many and varied. Make sure you choose the right backup software. I’ve been using Bacula since late 2003. The use of Bacula …
How I test tapes and tape drives I’ve written a number of articles about backups and about Bacula. With anything, you must test it to ensure it works properly. Do you test your tape drives? Do you test your tapes? Do you test the backup process by also doing a restore? In this article, I’ll …