After #Acronis True Image backup price hike I've been testing alternative backup systems. This time tried #Bacula server, running in Docker container in #Unraid server and clients in PCs.
It's very flexible and it took a day to figure out how it works. I got first full backup from a Windows desktop. I like many things like the scheduling system and how the server writes the bulk data into large BLOB files (e.g UrBackup writes zillion files). But there is one showstopper: restoration test fails, giving an SQL error. The Baculum webui has restoration wizard which selects a backup, then I select a file to be restored, but it fails when trying to run it. Hmm...

#dar 17/ In my mind, dar fills a nice niche: it doesn't have all the overhead of #Bacula/#Bareos, doesn't have all the limitations and bugs of #tar, and is extremely flexible. I have been using it to back up my non-ZFS machines to an airgapped destination and it is perfect.

/end

Lw migliori soluzioni di Backup per Linux

- #BorgBackup
- #BackinTime
- #DejaDup
- #Rsync
- #Clonezilla
- #VeeamAgent
- #Bacula
- #Kup
- #Syncthing
- #UrBackup
- #CobianBackup
- #rdiffBackup
- #Casync
- #Amanda
- #FlyBackup
- #BackupNinja
- #Kbackup
- #Mondorescue

#backup #linux #FreeSoftware #opensource

Nous organisons une formation "Bacula Administration I" en français du 21 au 23 mars à Paris et nous avons encore des places à offrir.
Si vous êtes intéressés, contactez-moi et je vous mettrai en contact avec notre équipe commerciale !

#backup #bacula #formation

Interessante Lekture: https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Aktive-Abwehr-defensiver-Offensive-ist-Cybersicherheitsfantasie-7474597.html
und ich find' insbesondere den vorletzten Absatz interessant. Nicht zuletzt weil das doch eigentlich jedem gelernten Kaufmann klar sein muss.

#backup #Bacula

We have training seats open for our Admin I training Feb 6th to 10th, online, European time zones.
Drop me a DM if interested and I'll get you in touch with our sales team!

https://www.baculasystems.com/bacula-administrator-i-training-course/

#Bacula #backup #training

I just thanked a sponsor for something which lets one of my projects keep running. They wrote back mentioning my work on #FreshPorts, #PostgreSQL, and #Bacula.

In this post, I'm talking about the quantity-of-work-to-wider-affect ratio.

From time to time, I think my work on Bacula has had the widest affect. I wrote the first of two modules for that project:

* The PostgreSQL backend (I wasn't going to use Bacula without it) for the Catalog (what is backed up where and from what and when).

* The initial proof-of-concept for encryption at the client (bacula-fd) - the goal: touch only the client and leave everything else transparent to the encryption. https://www.langille.org/bacula-encryption/

I cannot imagine the amount of data which is backed up using the work which evolved out that little project. The user-pool is smaller than FreshPorts I'm sure, but I've spent a great deal more time on FreshPorts than Bacula. Hence, the bang-for-the buck ratio I'm getting at.

In the past two days, I've had two separate instances of recovery of data from backups:

1 - I munged the merge of /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group on a #FreeBSD jail. I recovered those two files from a #Bacula backup,

2 - I removed an AAAA record from a domain using nsupdate while I was debugging some IPv6 issues and attempting to get pfSense and Verizon to play well together. I gave up and went back to Hurricane Electric for now (mostly because I have a static block from them). For that data recovery, I went to subversion.

What? Subversion and nsupdate? How do I do that? with nsnotifyd - it's a tiny daemon which listens for zone updates, then runs a script. That script saves the updates to subversion for me. It has been doing this for over 4 years now. Completely automated 100% - it is truly wonderful.

The beauty of nsnotifyd is you can make it run any script[s] you want. It's designed for exactly that. I have 4.5 years of DNS updates across 26 domains. It's my biggest backup set I think.

More here: https://dan.langille.org/2017/08/20/subversion-via-ssh-passphrase-less-key/

The other day I found out that #bacula backup comes with the source code of a tool called "bsnapshot" in src/tools and isn't build on default. But builds and runs alright on #FreeBSD. I uploaded the binary to one of my backup clients and set-up a FileSet with Snapshot enabled. And *tada* now the job creates zfs snapshots and backs them up. I got to dig a bit deeper on why it isn't build/installed with sysutils/bacula1X-client and how stable this is. If you have a clue let me know.

Progressing on migrating my #homelab backup server to new hardware went well tonight, got #bacula 13.0 installed on #Debian #bullseye and successfully imported and upgraded my catalog

@emacsen Used to use #Bacula , which was all right once it was set up. I'm hoping someone will suggest something even simpler.

The tangible material for our upcoming course (US times, online) is about to get shipped.
Thanks to a really fast printer, we could work around our regular supplier's unavailabilty. Kudos to the team at http://cca-digitaldruck.de !

#bacula #course

Habe gerade festgestellt, dass die Backup-Software #Bareos aus Debian 11 rausgeflogen ist, aber dafür #Bacula noch drin ist.

Vor Jahren ist Bareos als Community-orientierter Fork von Bacula erschienen (weil Bacula eher aufs Business gesetzt hat und nur noch wenig als Open Source veröffentlichte) und hat seitdem eigene Wege entwickelt. Hat sich das ganze nun umgedreht und man muss wieder nach Bacula zurück migrieren?

Due to short notice cancellation, we have seats for our upcoming -- June 27 to July 1 -- #Bacula Admin I #training available!

In UK, France, Germany, Austria, BeNeLux we should be able to ship material in time. Get in touch here, or at https://www.baculasystems.com/bacula-administrator-i-training-course/
This training is explicitly directed at Bacula Community users as well as Enterprise customers.

#jetlag by #homeoffice ;-)
Providing an online course to participants in North America.

They are a great group, and I like training for #bacula so everything is fine!

@hadeoneon #backups with #bacula of course... cloud or any other target does not change that.

@tulpa @jefmes if it's supposed to be useful, removable media is the way to go for desktop #backup -- you explained why.

How about portable SSD and rsync, so you can easily pause and resume?

If a less lightweight solution is needed, use a real backup software such as #bacula, of course...

Now let's find out if from no social media to Mastodon is a feasible move ;-)
So, needing backup and recovery and wanting FOSS? Check out what we can do with #bacula :-)

Nouvelle version majeur de Bacula (version communautaire). Je vais tester ça dans les jours a venir !

#Bacula Release 11.0.0 (beta)
https://www.bacula.org/bacula-release-11-0-0-beta/

One day, I will recall that #Bacula bconsole cli expect it's arguments in a certain order…

Good (list files):
* list files jobid=249

Bad (does not list files):
* list jobid=249 files

Completion always complete everything and does not help 😒