Technical Exhaustion

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 [...]

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 [...]