Quick and dirty – this should never be needed, but in the rare events that your auto rotation cycle fails or you’re just using a volume for testing and want to blank it to start from scratch, from the Bacula console enter : purge jobs volume After a short warning you can choose which pool [...]
Posted in Bacula | No Comments »Running software RAID-1 using gmirror under FreeBSD can save some headaches. Sometimes a disk literally fails leaving you running on a spare, sometimes you just have a ‘blip’ during a busy period of the server which causes gmirror to drop the disk from the array. This happened today and from dmesg we can see : [...]
Posted in FreeBSD | No Comments »I unwittingly stumbled across a reasonably well hidden Bacula design foible today. I’ve noticed for some time that when doing test restores, or browsing the ‘most recent backup’ for a client Bacula has included files that should not be there based on the timeline of the restore. If, after performing a full backup, some files [...]
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