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Best Free Windows Backup Software

The importance of Windows backups The importance of data as a company resource is hard to overstate. Therefore, creating and having personal control of backups of your data and applications is a critical necessity for any company, no matter where this data is located. Windows Server is no exception to that rule. Of course, there […]

Bacula Free Linux Backup and Restore Software

From the very beginning of its development, Bacula was built as a native Linux-based backup system. The suitability of Linux as the core operating system for both development and usage of an enterprise backup solution made it the foundation OS of choice for Bacula. Bacula is an enterprise-ready, agile solution capable of both backing up […]

Bacula Release 9.4.4

This is a bug fix release to 9.4.3. It includes some fixes that fix bad data records in Copy/Migration jobs or problems doing restores of Copy/Migration jobs.

28May19
– rpm: Fix mysql dependency for bacula-postgresql
– Fix bug 2476 — copy/migration jobs fail when waiting for a new Volume
– Add copy-jobspan-label-wait-test to do_all
– Add two new regression tests submitted by Martin Simmons for bug 2476
– Remove bacula32.def and bacula64.def.
– Add Michael Narigon as author for Mac heap implementation
– Add tests/restart-jobmedia-test to do_all
– Allow to hangup/blowup inside a file for tests
slash – fix suggested by vondi

Bacula Release 9.4.3

This release 9.4.3 is a bug fix release for version 9.4.2. It includes a number of bug fixes and patches.

Baculum: there have been significant additions and changes to Baculum.
If you want a web gui please check it out.

S3 driver: If you are trying to build the S3 drivers, please remember to use the community supplied (from Bacula Enterprise) version of libs3.so found at:

https://www.bacula.org/downloads/libs3-20181010.tar.gz

As usual the binaries that correspond to this release will follow in a week or two.

Bacula Release 9.4.2

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.4.2

This is a bug fix release to the prior version (9.4.1). It includes a number of bug fixes and patches. Thanks to the community for your participation.
9 bug reports were closed. In addition this version should fix virtually all the build problems found on FreeBSD.

We recommend that all users upgrade to this release.

If you are trying to build the S3 drivers, please remember to use the community supplied (from Bacula Enterprise) version of libs3.so found at:

Bacula Release 9.4.1

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.4.1

This is a minor bug fix release for 9.4.0. It should fix a few of the warning messages, but not all, on FreeBSD and Solaris. More importantly The ./configure process now properly detects that libs3 is installed on your system. If you do not want to use the Amazon S3 driver, this update is not required.

In addition to this release, I have posted the current source code with patches for libs3 to bacula.org. This package is needed if you wish to build the S3 driver. You may download it from the following location:

Bacula Release 9.4.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.4.0. This is a major release (currently a Beta release) comprised of more than 13,000 lines of differences since version 9.2.2. It has updates to Baculum and small number of bug fixes and back ports from Bacula Systems Enterprise since version 9.2.2, but primarily it […]

Bacula Status Report — 7 November 2018

The last Status Report was in June of this year, so I would like to bring you up to date on a few items: Bacula Release Status, Bacula Binaries, Windows Binaries, Next Bacula Version and New Website. The latest Bacula version 9.2.2 was released today to Source Forge and to www.bacula.org.  This is a small update to the previous version.

Bacula Release 9.2.2

We are pleased to announce Bacula release version 9.2.2.. This is a minor bug fix release (6,143 lines of diff). The main fixes to this version are: eliminate most messages that are repeatedly printed, eliminate malformed message output, error when compiling without TLS, … Note: if you are running MySQL and have not recently executed src/cats/update_bacula_tables, please do so. It will not change your database version but it will fix some potential MySQL problems (for more detals see the release notes for version 9.2.1).

Bacula Release 9.2.1

We are pleased to announce the minor bug and refactoring release version 9.2.1.

This is a bug fix release. It also contains some refactoring. That said,
there are 10,909 lines of diff between release 9.2.0 and this release.

About the author

Rob Morrison

Rob Morrison started his IT career with Silicon Graphics in Switzerland, which developed into a wide variety of IT management roles for almost 10 years. He has subsequently held various management positions in professional open source companies such as JBoss, Red Hat and Pentaho, contributing to the growth of these well-known companies. He is a graduate of Plymouth University and holds an Digital Media and Communications BSc Honours degree, and completed an Overseas Studies Program.