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Bacula Enterprise Management

The following article aims at presenting various information on how to manage Bacula Enterprise.

As a central part of your system, Bacula services will report critical issues with network, disk space, or Catalog database in its Job logs.

It is important to do some system monitoring to allow for correct backup operations:

monitor storage space
monitor Job results
monitor your infrastructure

You need to monitor space because Bacula cannot predict whether there will be enough room on tape or disks. You must ensure the available space is adequate for storing Jobs, but also on the Director as full filesystems will prohibit the backup from running correctly. For example, the spooling data is by default in /opt/bacula/working, the same for the spooled attributes. If this file system is full, Jobs will not succeed. You might want to use a tool like Nagios in order to create alarms if the pool space or partition space for /opt is low. Also remember that filesystems filled close to capacity are prone to have performance issues.