Frequently used bconsole commands in Bacula

What's up?

Which files shall be backed up?

show filesets

I=Included, E=Excluded

What's the server doing?

status dir

What's the status of a certain job?

status jobid=xx

What's the client doing?

status client

What's the streamer doing?

status storage

Anything new?

messages

Backing up

Start a backup

run

...and choose the backup job

Label a new tape

label

...and run mount afterwards

Restoring

The common way (a user accidentally removed a file and wants the newest version back from the tapes:

See also: http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Brief_Tutorial.html#SECTION000126000000000000000

Jobs

Last jobs

list jobs

...or list jobid=xx' for a specific job

Statistics about last lobs

list jobtotal

Which files were backed up?

list files jobid=xx

Job status

Status

means...

T

Terminated normally

C

Created but not yet running

R

Running

B

Blocked

E

Terminated in Error

e

Non-fatal error

f

Fatal error

D

Verify Differences

A

Canceled by the user

F

Waiting on the File daemon

S

Waiting on the Storage daemon

m

Waiting for a new Volume to be mounted

M

Waiting for a Mount

s

Waiting for Storage resource

j

Waiting for Job resource

c

Waiting for Client resource

d

Wating for Maximum jobs

t

Waiting for Start Time

p

Waiting for higher priority job to finish

Tapes

Which tapes are in the pool?

list media

Remove a tape

delete media

Which pools are defined?

list pools

Which tapes are/were used for a certain job?

list jobmedia

Assign a tape to a certain pool

add

Change parameters of a tape

update volume

Troubleshooting

Erase a label on the tape

mt rewind && mt weof && mt rewind

Complete list

...at http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Console.html#SECTION000205000000000000000

WorkaroundOrg: BaculaConsoleCommands (last edited 2006-04-10 08:30:22 by ChristophHaas)