I finally got the time to continue with my bacula backup setup. See my previous posts about the start of my bacula setup.
I created a new zfs pool “bigpool” with some old harddisks I probably need to replace them with bigger harddisk in the further.
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I own a Unicomp model-m keyboard. The keyboard has a nice key feel but it has windows super key(s).
I don’t use super key(s), and would prefer to have a keyboard without it. But when it has super keys I’d rather have it without the windows logo on it so it was time to replace them with the tux version
Read more...I finally got the time to try out my jenkins build on my new 20 Core Dual Processor Jenkins Build Workstation
I’m able to run all test on multiple operation systems now. I still need to review this setup and perhaps move some tests to docker instead of the virtual machines to save some memory. …but this jenkins setup was configured before docker was a thing.
Have fun
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My jenkins builds are taking too long mainly due the lack of memory. I mainly use jenkins to verify that my software work on different operation systems (GNU/Linux distributions / *BSD / Solaris).
Looking for a solution that is still affordable I ended up with building a dual Xeon workstation. CPU and memory comes from www.ebay.be
In my previous post, I setup on my PostgresSQL FreeBSD jail, In this post we continue with the bacaula server.
In this post we will continue with the database connection (Catalog) we’ll go the extra mile 1,609344 km and encrypt the catalog connection with ssl. Why? We encrypt.. because we can!
Bacula Director
The Bacula Director is daemon that runs in the backgroud that control all backup operations.
Bacula Console
The Bacula console is an administrator program that allows an system administrator to control the Bacula director.
Bacula File
The Bacula File is a backup client install on the backup client.
Bacula Storage
The backup media.
Catalog
The Catalog is the index of the backups. Bacula supports three types of index databases mySQL ( mariaDB), PostgreSQL and SQLite
Bacula monitor
A Bacula monitor service is a program that allows the system administrator to cerify the status of the bacula Directors, Bacula File Daemons and Bacula Storage Daemons.
