Bacula and BBR Protocol for Internet Backups, Packet Losses, Disconnections, etc.

Backups through degraded networks (e.g., with packet loss) and the Internet, where the connection passes through various NATs, firewalls, and routers, tend to significantly affect the performance and resilience of…

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PostgreSQL Vacuum – Bacula Catalog Maintenance

Periodically executing the vacuum analyze and vacuum full commands in PostgreSQL is essential to maintain the performance and integrity of the database. The importance of each of these commands is…

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Bacula Virtual/Synthetic Full and Forever Incremental Backups

The Bacula's Virtual Full backup level is often called Synthetic Backup or Consolidation in other backup systems. It permits you to consolidate the previous Full backup plus the most recent…

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Start Manual Individual Copy Job or at the End of Backups

It is possible to run a Bacula Copy Job for a specific JobID, through the command: run job=xx jobid=yy yes In this case, xx should be the name of your…

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Advanced Backed Up File Names and Directories Search in Bacula bconsole – sqlquery

In addition to the searches provided by the GUIs (BWeb Enterprise and Baculum), and the search by file name of the bconsole restore command (option 2), it is also possible…

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[KB] Error: lib/bsockcore.c:285 gethostbyname() for host “xxx” failed: ERR=No such host is known.

The following Backup Job log error message is one of the most common in new Bacula installations: xxx-fd JobId x: Error: lib/bsockcore.c:285 gethostbyname() for host "xxx" failed: ERR=No such host…

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bsplitter – Bacula FileSet Dynamic Splitter for Parallel Backups

This script allows you to dynamically list subdirectories and files in a backup directory, dividing lists of files for backup classified by size. In the command example: /opt/bacula/scripts/bsplitter 3 1…

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CEPH Volumes Backup with the Bacula bpipe Plugin and RBD Export

We have seen in the past how bpipe makes it possible to backup numerous applications using commands for standard Linux output <https://www.bacula.lat/using-bpipe-to-stream-dumps-vm-clones-and-another-data-to-your-backup/?lang=en>. rbd is a utility for manipulating images from…

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Home Office? Manage your Backups from anywhere with BWeb!

Do you want a backup & recovery solution that allows remote management through a highly intuitive and customizable graphical interface?

In addition to the computer, you can use your smartphone to access Bacula Enterprise’s exclusive graphical interface, which offers many facilities for managing your backups, reporting key metrics and analyzing and recovering data. With BWeb, all configurations are made graphically and are made much easier.

Panel Customization

As of version 12.0 of the BWeb Management Console, it is possible to customize the size and position of all the boxes displayed in the interface. The Page Composer page can be used to create graphic pages and create panels with a library of predefined widgets or with graphics provided by Graphite.

Application Monitoring

Through the BWeb Mobile app, available from version 10, it is possible to monitor, receive alerts and perform backup operations.

Browser Access

Bweb is compatible with most web browsers and does not use Java/Flash plugins.

Easy Management

• User ACLs and Profiles. To facilitate the administration and generation of reports, it is possible to create groups of clients and obtain detailed information about each one.
• Integration with AD/LDAP.
• In each client it is possible to backup several applications.

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