Backup
Perform a backup by running the job via bconsole.
Below is an example of a Fileset and a Job:
Fileset:
Fileset {
Name = "big-fs-plugin"
Include {
File=/etc
File=/home
Options {
signature=MD5
}
Plugin = "big-fs: workers=5"
}
}
Job:
Job {
Name = "BigFsPluginJob"
Type = Backup
Client = host-fd
FileSet = "big-fs-plugin"
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5
Write Bootstrap = "/opt/bacula/working_dir/bootstrap.bsr"
AllowIncompleteJobs = no
Accurate = yes
}
Joblog:
run job=job.user-fd.big-fs level=Full
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
Run Backup job
JobName: job.user-fd.big-fs
Level: Full
Client: user-fd
FileSet: fs.user-fd.big-fs
Pool: Default (From Job resource)
Storage: File (From Job resource)
When: 2025-08-18 11:16:25
Priority: 10
OK to run? (Yes/mod/no): yes
Job queued. JobId=1
Connecting to Director user:8101
1000 OK: 10003 user-dir Version: 18.2.0 (22 May 2025)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
Automatically selected Client: user-fd
Connecting to Client user-fd at user:8102
You have messages.
wait
messages
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 1: Start Backup JobId 1, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.25_04
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 1: Connected to Storage "File" at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 1: Using Device "FileStorage" to write.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 1: Connected to Client "user-fd" at user:8102 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 1: Connected to Storage at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 1: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "TestVolume001" on File device "FileStorage" (<file stroage>)
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 1: big-fs: Controljob started a fs-backint session
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 1: Connecting to fs-backint process...
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 1: fs-backint process connected.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Start Backup JobId 2, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.29_06
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Using Control JobId 1, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.25_04
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Connected to Storage "File" at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Using Device "FileStorage" to write.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Connected to Client "user-fd" at user:8102 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 2: Connected to Storage at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 2: Connecting to fs-backint process...
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 2: fs-backint process connected.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Start Backup JobId 3, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.32_08
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Using Control JobId 1, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.25_04
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Connected to Storage "File" at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Using Device "FileStorage" to write.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Connected to Client "user-fd" at user:8102 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 3: Connected to Storage at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 3: Connecting to fs-backint process...
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 3: fs-backint process connected.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Start Backup JobId 4, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.35_10
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Using Control JobId 1, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.25_04
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Connected to Storage "File" at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Using Device "FileStorage" to write.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Connected to Client "user-fd" at user:8102 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 4: Connected to Storage at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 4: Connecting to fs-backint process...
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 4: fs-backint process connected.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Start Backup JobId 5, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.39_12
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Using Control JobId 1, Job=job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.25_04
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Connected to Storage "File" at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Using Device "FileStorage" to write.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Connected to Client "user-fd" at user:8102 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 5: Connected to Storage at user:8103 with TLS
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 5: Connecting to fs-backint process...
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 5: fs-backint process connected.
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 3: Elapsed time=00:00:23, Transfer rate=1.026 M Bytes/second
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 2: Elapsed time=00:00:26, Transfer rate=873.9 K Bytes/second
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 4: Elapsed time=00:00:20, Transfer rate=1.147 M Bytes/second
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 5: Elapsed time=00:00:16, Transfer rate=2.074 M Bytes/second
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 3: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 242,249 bytes ...
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 2: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 280,617 bytes ...
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 4: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 215,459 bytes ...
18-Aug 11:16 user-sd JobId 5: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 332,153 bytes ...
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Bacula user-dir 18.2.0 (22May25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
JobId: 3
Job: job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.32_08
Backup Level: Incremental, since=1970-01-01 01:00:01
Client: "user-fd" 18.2.0 (22May25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,
FileSet: "fs.user-fd.big-fs" 2025-08-18 11:16:23
Pool: "Default" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:32
Start time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:35
End time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:59
Elapsed time: 24 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 884
SD Files Written: 884
FD Bytes Written: 23,467,218 (23.46 MB)
SD Bytes Written: 23,619,179 (23.61 MB)
Rate: 977.8 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: 50.7% 2.0:1
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): TestVolume001
Volume Session Id: 3
Volume Session Time: 1755508583
Last Volume Bytes: 102,703,523 (102.7 MB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Bacula user-dir 18.2.0 (22May25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
JobId: 4
Job: job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.35_10
Backup Level: Incremental, since=1970-01-01 01:00:01
Client: "user-fd" 18.2.0 (22May25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,,
FileSet: "fs.user-fd.big-fs" 2025-08-18 11:16:23
Pool: "Default" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:35
Start time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:38
End time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:59
Elapsed time: 21 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 790
SD Files Written: 790
FD Bytes Written: 22,822,584 (22.82 MB)
SD Bytes Written: 22,958,663 (22.95 MB)
Rate: 1086.8 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: 48.8% 2.0:1
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): TestVolume001
Volume Session Id: 4
Volume Session Time: 1755508583
Last Volume Bytes: 102,703,523 (102.7 MB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Bacula user-dir 18.2.0 (22May25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
JobId: 2
Job: job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.29_06
Backup Level: Incremental, since=1970-01-01 01:00:01
Client: "user-fd" 18.2.0 (22May25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,,
FileSet: "fs.user-fd.big-fs" 2025-08-18 11:16:23
Pool: "Default" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:29
Start time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:32
End time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:59
Elapsed time: 27 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 1,018
SD Files Written: 1,018
FD Bytes Written: 22,544,261 (22.54 MB)
SD Bytes Written: 22,722,278 (22.72 MB)
Rate: 835.0 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: 52.8% 2.1:1
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): TestVolume001
Volume Session Id: 2
Volume Session Time: 1755508583
Last Volume Bytes: 102,703,523 (102.7 MB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: No Jobs found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: Begin pruning Files.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: No Files found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 4: End auto prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Bacula user-dir 18.2.0 (22May25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
JobId: 5
Job: job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.39_12
Backup Level: Incremental, since=1970-01-01 01:00:01
Client: "user-fd" 18.2.0 (22May25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,,
FileSet: "fs.user-fd.big-fs" 2025-08-18 11:16:23
Pool: "Default" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:39
Start time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:42
End time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:59
Elapsed time: 17 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 1,207
SD Files Written: 1,207
FD Bytes Written: 32,979,914 (32.97 MB)
SD Bytes Written: 33,191,053 (33.19 MB)
Rate: 1940.0 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: 50.5% 2.0:1
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: no
Volume name(s): TestVolume001
Volume Session Id: 5
Volume Session Time: 1755508583
Last Volume Bytes: 102,703,523 (102.7 MB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: No Jobs found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: Begin pruning Files.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: No Files found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 3: End auto prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: No Jobs found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: Begin pruning Files.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: No Files found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 5: End auto prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: No Jobs found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: Begin pruning Files.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: No Files found to prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-dir JobId 2: End auto prune.
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 1: JobId=2 Job Status is OK
18-Aug 11:16 user-fd JobId 1: JobId=3 Job Status is OK
18-Aug 11:17 user-fd JobId 1: JobId=4 Job Status is OK
18-Aug 11:17 user-fd JobId 1: JobId=5 Job Status is OK
18-Aug 11:17 user-sd JobId 1: Elapsed time=00:00:32, Transfer rate=7 Bytes/second
18-Aug 11:17 user-sd JobId 1: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 117 bytes ...
18-Aug 11:17 user-dir JobId 1: Bacula user-dir 18.2.0 (22May25):
Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
JobId: 1
Job: job.user-fd.big-fs.2025-08-18_11.16.25_04
Backup Level: Full
Client: "user-fd" 18.2.0 (22May25) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,,
FileSet: "fs.user-fd.big-fs" 2025-08-18 11:16:23
Pool: "Default" (From Job resource)
Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage: "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:25
Start time: 18-Aug-2025 11:16:27
End time: 18-Aug-2025 11:17:00
Elapsed time: 33 secs
Priority: 10
FD Files Written: 1
SD Files Written: 1
FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B)
SD Bytes Written: 251 (251 B)
Rate: 0.0 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Comm Line Compression: 13.7% 1.2:1
Snapshot/VSS: no
Encryption: no
Accurate: yes
Volume name(s): TestVolume001
Volume Session Id: 1
Volume Session Time: 1755508583
Last Volume Bytes: 102,704,274 (102.7 MB)
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
18-Aug 11:17 user-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
18-Aug 11:17 user-dir JobId 1: No Jobs found to prune.
18-Aug 11:17 user-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Files.
18-Aug 11:17 user-dir JobId 1: No Files found to prune.
18-Aug 11:17 user-dir JobId 1: End auto prune.
Note
When a Big FS job is started, the initial Big FS job that starts is the control job
which will backup a single empty record and then trigger additional worker jobs.
It is anticipated that this control job backs up 1 file and 0 bytes.
Go back to: Operations.