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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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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Windows Bare Metal Recovery Enterprise Bacula Plugin Quick Guide

This Quick Guide presents techniques and strategies for completely restoring physical, virtual, or even cloud machines using the Bacula Bare Metal Restore Plugin for Linux. Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) is…

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Zimbra Granular Mailboxes Backup and Automatic Restore with Bacula and bpipe Plugin

The Zimbra server must have the Bacula client installed and configured, and the following script must be on the same machine. The script lists all Zimbra email boxes (zmprov -l…

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