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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[News] New 580 TB Magnetic Tape

Bacula natively supports all models of Magnetic Drives and Tape Libraries, unlike some other systems that cannot write directly to them. A New Breakthrough In Tape Storage Could Squeeze 580…

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