Category Archives: Bacula Tricks
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Force a Full or Differential backup in Bacula using bconsole.
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks.If you are running Bacula on a schedule where you do Incremental, Differential and Full backups and your full or Differential backup fails, when you run the job again, the job will run as Incremental. To force a full or differential backup, you need to use bConsole and use the RUN command and made a […]
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Archive Full Bacula Backups to Removable Hard Drive.
Posted on April 13, 2017 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks.I have my backups set to do Incremental backups daily, Differential backups on the weekend and Full backups on the first Saturday of the month. I then use the Copy function in Bacula to copy the full backups onto a removable hard drive for archiving. I keep a drive for every month and recycle them […]
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Using Bacula to backup a Synology Nas
Posted on April 12, 2017 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks.Since I use Bacula as my main backup solution and Synology NAS systems for file storage, I wanted to have a way to backup my Synology NAS’s using Bacula but there is not a Bacula package for Synology. I searched the web a good bit and nothing that I could find was really a trustworthy […]
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Backing up a SQL database with Bacula
Posted on April 12, 2017 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks.The community edition of Bacula doesn’t have a SQL plugin but that doesn’t mean you can’t make backups of your SQL database into .bak files and then back up those .bak files to your Bacula system. Here is how I accomplish this: I created a directory on the SQL server called C:\DatabaseBackups and another directory […]
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Getting Bacula to send daily summery emails with MariaDB
Posted on February 5, 2016 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks.I was looking for a way to get a summery report of the last backup jobs ran in the last 24 hours and I ran across this article here http://www.revpol.com/baculasummaryemails. When I tried to get it working with my installations using MariaDB, it wouldn’t work. I found that the Mysql query code had to be […]
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