• Bacula Frequently Asked Questions
  • Tips and Suggestions
    • Upgrading Bacula Versions
    • Getting Notified of Job Completion
    • Getting Email Notification to Work
    • Getting Notified that Bacula is Running
    • Maintaining a Valid Bootstrap File
    • Rejected Volumes After a Crash
    • Security Considerations
    • Creating Holiday Schedules
    • Automatic Labeling Using Your Autochanger
    • Backing Up Portables Using DHCP
    • Going on Vacation
    • Exclude Files on Windows Regardless of Case
    • Executing Scripts on a Remote Machine
    • Recycling All Your Volumes
    • Backing up ACLs on ext3 or XFS filesystems
    • Total Automation of Bacula Tape Handling
    • Running Concurrent Jobs
  • Testing Your Tape Drive With Bacula
    • Get Your Tape Drive Working
      • Problems When no Tape in Drive
      • Specifying the Configuration File
      • Specifying a Device Name For a Tape
      • Specifying a Device Name For a File
    • btape
      • Using btape to Verify your Tape Drive
      • Testing tape drive speed
      • Linux SCSI Tricks
    • Tips for Resolving Problems
      • Bacula Saves But Cannot Restore Files
      • Bacula Cannot Open the Device
      • Incorrect File Number
      • Incorrect Number of Blocks or Positioning Errors
      • Ensuring that the Tape Modes Are Properly Set - Linux Only
      • Tape Hardware Compression and Blocking Size
      • Tape Modes on FreeBSD
      • Finding your Tape Drives and Autochangers on FreeBSD
      • Using the OnStream driver on Linux Systems
    • Hardware Compression on EXB-8900
      • Using btape to Simulate Filling a Tape
    • Recovering Files Written With Fixed Block Sizes
    • Tape Blocking Modes
    • Details of Tape Modes
    • Tape Performance Problems
    • Autochanger Errors
    • Syslog Errors
  • Dealing with Firewalls
    • Technical Details
    • A Concrete Example
      • The Bacula Configuration Files for the Above
      • How Does It Work?
      • Important Note
      • Firewall Problems
  • What To Do When Bacula Crashes (Kaboom)
    • Traceback
    • Testing The Traceback
    • Getting A Traceback On Other Systems
    • Manually Running Bacula Under The Debugger
    • Getting Debug Output from Bacula
  • Acronyms
  • Index