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- <li> <a href="presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-24Feb07.pdf" >PDF FOSDEM Slide Show</a>
+ <li> <a href="presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-25Feb07.pdf" >PDF FOSDEM Slide Show</a>
<br>Slide Show Presented at FOSDEM 2007<br></li>
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The Console program is used by the administrator to interact with the Director
and to manually start/stop Jobs or to obtain Job status information.
-The Console configuration file is found in the directory specified on the {\bf
-\verb:--:sysconfdir} option that you specified on the {\bf ./configure} command
-and
-by default is named {\bf console.conf}.
+The Console configuration file is found in the directory specified on the
+{\bf \verb:--:sysconfdir} option that you specified on the {\bf
+./configure} command and by default is named {\bf bconsole.conf}.
-If you choose to build the GNOME console with the {\bf \verb:--:enable-gnome}
-option,
-you also find a default configuration file for it, named {\bf
-gnome-console.conf}.
+If you choose to build the GNOME console with the {\bf
+\verb:--:enable-gnome} option, you also find a default configuration file
+for it, named {\bf gnome-console.conf}.
The same applies to the wxWidgets console, which is build with the {\bf
-\verb:--:enable-wx-console} option, and the name of the default configuration
-file
-is, in this case, {\bf wx-console.conf}.
+\verb:--:enable-wx-console} option, and the name of the default
+configuration file is, in this case, {\bf wx-console.conf}.
Normally, for first time users, no change is needed to these files. Reasonable
defaults are set.
\begin{verbatim}
The defined FileSet resources are:
1: Full Set
- 2: Kerns Files
+ 2: Other Files
Select FileSet resource (1-2):
\end{verbatim}
\normalsize
Bootstrap: /home/kern/bacula/working/restore.bsr
Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
Replace: always
-FileSet: Kerns Files
+FileSet: Other Files
Client: Rufus
Storage: Tape
When: 2006-12-11 18:20:33
Bootstrap: /home/kern/bacula/working/restore.bsr
Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
Replace: always
-FileSet: Kerns Files
+FileSet: Other Files
Client: Rufus
Storage: DDS-4
When: 2003-09-11 10:20:53
Using this strategy, one typically does a Full backup once a week followed by
daily Incremental backups. To minimize the amount of data written to the tape,
-one can do (as I do) a Full backup once a month on the first Sunday of the
+one can do a Full backup once a month on the first Sunday of the
month, a Differential backup on the 2nd-5th Sunday of the month, and
incremental backups the rest of the week.
\label{Manual}
\item In your Storage daemon's Device resource, set
{\bf AlwaysOpen = no}
In this case, Bacula will release the tape after every job. If you run
-several jobs, the tape will be rewound and repositioned to the end at the
-beginning of every job. This is not very efficient, but does let you change
-the tape whenever you want.
+ several jobs, the tape will be rewound and repositioned to the end at the
+ beginning of every job. This is not very efficient, but does let you change
+ the tape whenever you want.
\item Use a {\bf RunAfterJob} statement to run a script after your last job.
This could also be an {\bf Admin} job that runs after all your backup jobs.
The script could be something like:
\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
#!/bin/sh
- /full-path/console -c /full-path/console.conf <<END_OF_DATA
+ /full-path/bconsole -c /full-path/bconsole.conf <<END_OF_DATA
release storage=your-storage-name
END_OF_DATA
\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
#!/bin/sh
- /full-path/console -c /full-path/console.conf <\<END_OF_DATA
+ /full-path/bconsole -c /full-path/bconsole.conf <\<END_OF_DATA
unmount storage=your-storage-name
END_OF_DATA
# the following is a shell command
mt eject
- /full-path/console -c /full-path/console.conf <<END_OF_DATA
+ /full-path/bconsole -c /full-path/bconsole.conf <<END_OF_DATA
mount storage=your-storage-name
END_OF_DATA
configured in the default configuration files, but you must ensure that the
default {\bf root} address is replaced by your email address.
-For examples of how I (Kern) configure my system, please take a look at the
+For additional examples of how to configure a Bacula, please take a look at the
{\bf .conf} files found in the {\bf examples} sub-directory. We recommend the
following configuration (where you change the paths and email address to
correspond to your setup). Note, the {\bf mailcommand} and {\bf
3: Timmy
Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-3): 2
The defined FileSet resources are:
- 1: Kerns Files
+ 1: Other Files
Item 1 selected automatically.
+-------+------+-------+---------+---------+------+-------+------------+
| JobId | Levl | Files | StrtTim | VolName | File | SesId | VolSesTime |
JobName: kernsrestore
Bootstrap: /home/kern/bacula/working/restore.bsr
Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
-FileSet: Kerns Files
+FileSet: Other Files
Client: Rufus
Storage: File
JobId: *None*
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