Bacula on FreeBSD (pt. 5): A day at the pool

Edit: I put up the original post only for a short time before I decided that I wasn't really happy with it at all. So I took it down again to rework it a bit. By now I've more or less rewritten it completely. I hope that this version will be more useful. This is …

Bacula on FreeBSD (pt. 4): Jobs, volumes, pools & a restore

This is part four of my Bacula tutorial. The first part covered some basics as well as installing Bacula and starting the three daemons that it consists of. Part two dealt with allowing all components of Bacula to interact with each other locally, debugging config problems and doing a first test backup. In part three …

Bacula on FreeBSD (pt. 3): Customizing configuration

This is the third part of my Bacula tutorial. The first part covered some basics as well as installing Bacula and starting the three daemons that it consists of. Part two dealt with modifying the default configuration files in a way that allowed all components of Bacula to interact with each other locally. And finally …

Bacula on FreeBSD (pt. 2): Bconsole – ruling the Director

This is the second part of my hands-on Bacula tutorial. The first part introduced Bacula for people without any previous knowledge, discussed some basics and covered getting all three daemons up and running. This post will explain how to use bconsole to connect to the director, ensure that the director can connect to the other …

Bacula on FreeBSD (pt. 1): Introduction – Bacula backup basics

Looking for a practical tutorial to get into Bacula hands-on? You've come to the right place. So this post is going to cover the three "B": Bacula Backup Basics, and it will do so on a fourth "B" - (Free)BSD! Read "basics" auds "does not require previous knowledge". However it's Bacula basics. Even though the …