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November 1, 2024 Bacula with Geyser Data S3 Storage

Geyser Data (www.geyserdata.com) is a Tape Archive Platform-as-a-Service which is globally accessible over an S3 proxy. Bacula Storage Daemon (SD) is able to utilize this service via Bacula S3 Cloud storage plugin. Geyser Data Tiering Geyser Data implements implicit (cannot be configured or reconfigured) migration of the data in between the initial CACHE (disk) and…

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October 10, 2024 Bacula Enterprise 18.0.4 released!

18.0.4 is the new Bacula Enterprise reference release. We have brought many new features, focusing on security, among others: – BGuardian Poisoning Detection & Configuration Assessment – BWeb Security Center Dashboard – OpenStack VM Plugin – Kubernetes CSI Snapshot Support – Hyper-V WinAPI Plugin – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Plugin (EC2 VMs) – Microsoft Exchange…

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June 10, 2024 Upgrading from CentOS 7 with Bacula Enterprise or Bacula Community

Introduction You will upgrade your CentOS 7 operating system, hosting any Bacula Enterprise version. It is key to prepare this process very well. Operating System Choice If you don’t run any Bacula Enterprise plugins, please choose any new platform for your choice. We support Alma Linux, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux as well as RHEL….

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Bacula Community 15.0.2 Released!

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 15.0.2 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge release. This release brings a lot of new features and plugins. More detailed information about the changes is available here. Binaries for Windows, Redhat 7,8,9 (and compatible systems), Debian 11/12 and Ubuntu 20/22 LTS are…

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Bacula Enterprise 16.0.14 released!

16.0.14 is the new Bacula Enterprise reference release. We have brought updates to the Global End Point Deduplication version 2, the Kubernetes and the Microsoft 365 plugins. Please consult the release notes for more information (https://docs.baculasystems.com/misc/releaseNotes/16.0.html#release-16-0-14-24-may-2024).

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May 6, 2024 Bacula Enterprise 16.0.13 released!

16.0.13 is the new Bacula Enterprise reference release. Please consult the release notes for more information (https://docs.baculasystems.com/misc/releaseNotes/16.0.html#release-16-0-13-28-march-2024).

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August 29, 2023 Bacula Enterprise 16.0.7 released!

16.0.7 is the new reference release. Please consult the release notes for more information (https://tickets.baculasystems.com/portal/support/kb/misc/releaseNotes/16.0.html#release-16-0-7-11-july-2023). Some of the fixes and improvements brought by the new Bacula Enterprise 16.0.7: – Single Item Restore (SIR) is now supported with the VMware plugin backup from vSphere running versions 7 and 8 – The Proxmox plugin’s VMA backup jobs are now…

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June 15, 2023 Send email based on backup joblog keyword

Here’s a handy tip that you may find useful: In order to grep for a key word in the backup joblog and send an email to a selected recipient, we suggest using a script that will grep a keyword (in this example we use the “Will not descend” keyword). Then send the e-mail (in this…

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June 14, 2023 Bacula Enterprise Version 16.0.6 Released

Bacula Enterprise 16.0.6 is the new reference release. Please consult release notes for more information. Some of the fixes brought by the new BEE 16.0.6 include: A lot of improvements for the HyperV-WMI plugin VMWare plugin: the VDDK library updated to 8.0 The new Exchange E2WS plugin permits to backup and restore at item level…

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May 22, 2023 Bacula’s M365 Plugin Authorization Steps Video

Here is very clear and precise video about the Authorization Steps to take for Bacula’s M365 Plugin in the Cloud. You may well find it useful to learn about the registration process. Look out for the next video “How to Configure and Run Backup and Restore M365 with Bacula Enterprise” coming soon!

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May 2, 2023 Bacula Enterprise Version 16.0.5 Released

Bacula’s development is continuing as quickly as ever. Its engineering team are proud to announced Bacula Enterprise version 16.0.5 . This release makes Bacula just about the most most technology-compatible backup solution available. Just some of the great features in this release are: Azure VM Plugin – with backup and restore support for Azure VM…

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August 24, 2022 New Platforms Available for Bacula Community

Bacula Systems is continuing to contribute to the Community version all the time. This week’s news is that it is expanding on its industry-leading support for major platforms by adding RedHat Linux 9, Oracle Linux 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 to our wide range of supported platforms for Community users. You can now find these binaries…

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