Bacula Cheatsheet

November 6, 2012 admin

Just a few useful commands. Note that bconsole commands can be scripted by echoing commands through a pipe to bconsole. This is very helpful as you can see.

Check bacula job progress:

root@bcla001:~# echo "status client=dracula-fd" | bconsole | grep -i file
    Files=31,011 Bytes=507,017,314,659 Bytes/sec=13,158,002 Errors=0
    Files Examined=31,011
    Processing file: /raidvol/home/bob/o_Data/770/9V904G8FMDW6X4473B3J8Q8H1B.vxml
 JobId  Level    Files      Bytes   Status   Finished        Name

Check bacula running jobs:

root@bcla001:~# echo "list jobs" | bconsole | grep "|"
| JobId | Name | StartTime           | Type | Level | JobFiles | JobBytes | JobStatus |
| 6     | Test | 2012-09-07 17:58:29 | B    | F     | 0        | 0        | R         |

Check bacula volumes for specific Pool:

root@bcla001:~# echo "list volumes Pool=FullTest" | bconsole | grep "|"
| MediaId | VolumeName   | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes      | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType     | LastWritten         |
| 1       | FullTest0001 | Full      | 1       | 1862750776320 | 1863     | 15552000     | 1       | 0    | 0         | Ultrium5-SCSI | 2012-09-08 08:17:19 |
| 2       | FullTest0002 | Used      | 1       | 112992768000  | 113      | 15552000     | 1       | 0    | 0         | Ultrium5-SCSI | 2012-09-08 11:02:22 |

Flag volume full:

*update volume > Volume Status > Default > VOL034 > Full > Done

A better cheat sheet at this link: http://workaround.org/bacula-cheatsheet