Bacula Fine Tuning

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Best Practices

Please refer to the Bacula manuals, available at https://www.bacula.org.

We recommend a PostgreSQL backend to run Bacula.
Design a backup strategy in case of disaster recovery (more information is available in the chapter “Critical Items to Implement Before Production” in the Main Manual)
- For example, backup your catalog and store the .bsr (bootstrap) file in a safe location.
- For example, backup your DIR and SD configuration files (if you are using Baculum, please backup its conf.d/ folder).

As a best practice, document your backup design to provide a good overview and enhance the understanding of your backup infrastructure. Please test your tape library infrastructure following the instructions in the chapter named “btape” in the Utility Manual

PostgreSQL Catalog

On Debian, to change the catalog password, please run the commands:

#su- postgres
$psql
postgres=# alter user bacula with password 'your_new_password';
postgres=# \q

Then you must put the new password in /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-dir.conf as shown below:

  Catalog {
    Name = MyCatalog
    dbname = "bacula"; dbuser = "bacula"; dbpassword = "your_new_password"
  }

Restart the bacula-dir service:

/etc/init.d/bacula-dir restart
#or, on more recent versions,
#systemctl restart bacula-dir.service