New release Bacularis 4.5.0

[Marcin Haba]

Hello Everybody,

We are happy to announce a new Bacularis release 4.5.0. This is a new feature and bug fix release. We prepared two new Bacularis plugins: MySQL and MariaDB database backup plugins. Using them there is possible to do the databases backup in various ways: dump backup (in three variants), binary physical online backup, backup for Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), file backup for crucial database server files. This two plugins solution also introduces real incremental and differential database backups for the dump backup method. We are very glad that we provide these plugins for the Community. Below you can see the video guides that present the new plugins. They are with using the MariaDB server but the very similar functions are available for the MySQL databases backup as well. More information about the database plugins you can find in the Bacularis documentation.

Video guides

[1/5] Bacularis - MariaDB/MySQL dump all databases separately - backup and restore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BaFdNfwPI

[2/5] Bacularis - MariaDB/MySQL dump backup - various restore ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWCkQhISr_c

[3/5] Bacularis - MariaDB/MySQL dump all databases one dump - backup and restore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvcO18NqoY

[4/5] Bacularis - MariaDB/MySQL local dump backup restore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slqEZeEauKE

[5/5] Bacularis - MariaDB/MySQL binary online backup and restore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxO4KfeIb78

Plugins documentation

Bacularis MySQL plugin
https://bacularis.app/doc/plugins/database/mysql-backup-plugin.html

Bacularis MariaDB plugin
https://bacularis.app/doc/plugins/database/mariadb-backup-plugin.html

Release announcement
https://bacularis.app/news/99/36/New-release-Bacularis-4.5.0

Besides new plugins, we also did some changes and small improvements in the deployment process. At the end we fixed a couple of bugs reported by the Community.

We wish you good installations and upgrades.

Happy using Bacularis!

On behalf of the Bacularis Team
Marcin Haba (gani)

[Study It]

Hello Marcin and team,

This is, without a doubt, the best news of the year!

Having both the host OS and the database backed up through the same interface and server is incredibly useful—it’s a game changer.

Thank you so much, and kudos to all of you for the outstanding work! I had full confidence that this project would deliver on all its promises, and you’ve absolutely proven me right.

Once again, thank you! My boss was thrilled with the news, and it’s great to know my intuition and radar were spot on.

Best regards,

[Marcin Haba]

Hello Study It,

On behalf of the Bacularis Team, thank you very much for your positive
message :-) Yes, your intuition works perfectly fine. Great to hear
all this feedback. It motivates us a lot :-)

When three weeks ago you wrote here your question about MySQL db
backup, I was both happy and (positively) surprised. I was happy to
see that this work will be useful for the Community and I was
surprised because not every day people ask questions about the
database backup with Bacula.

Thanks, again!

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

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[Study It]

Hello Marcin,

I thought opening a new thread was unnecessary, so I’m using this one to ask a quick question.

In our environment, every upgrade or update is approached with caution and must be thoroughly tested in a test environment before deployment. With that in mind, I created a test machine where I installed Bacula/Bacularis.

I registered to obtain the Bacularis binaries, added the registered repository with my user credentials to the test machine, ran the apt update command, and successfully installed Bacularis version 4.0.0.

So far, so good! However, I’m now wondering how to get version 4.5.0. Is this version only available to users subscribed to the paid repository, or will it eventually become available to the community? I wonder, is it already accessible, and I might have missed a step to update the binaries from 4.0.0 to 4.5.0?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Study It]

Hello again,

For update a 3.2.1 Bacularis machine, it is necesseray only to add the registered repos, and update?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Marcin Haba]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 10:39, Study It <study.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Marcin,
>
> I thought opening a new thread was unnecessary, so I’m using this one to ask a quick question.
>
> In our environment, every upgrade or update is approached with caution and must be thoroughly tested in a test environment before deployment. With that in mind, I created a test machine where I installed Bacula/Bacularis.
>
> I registered to obtain the Bacularis binaries, added the registered repository with my user credentials to the test machine, ran the apt update command, and successfully installed Bacularis version 4.0.0.
>
> So far, so good! However, I’m now wondering how to get version 4.5.0. Is this version only available to users subscribed to the paid repository, or will it eventually become available to the community? I wonder, is it already accessible, and I might have missed a step to update the binaries from 4.0.0 to 4.5.0?

Hello Study It,

Yes, it is exactly like you said. The binary packages with major
releases (like 4.0.0) are available in the free repositories. Binary
packages with major and minor releases (like 4.5.0) are available in
the subscription repositories. More details about binary packages you
can find in the Bacularis.com user panel or directly here:
https://bacularis.com

If you don't want to use the package subscription, you can use
alternative installation ways (Docker, PHP composer, manual
installation...) that provide 4.5.0. All them are documented in the
Bacularis documentation.

[Marcin Haba]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 10:47, Study It <study.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> For update a 3.2.1 Bacularis machine, it is necesseray only to add the registered repos, and update?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello Study It,

Yes. After adding the new repository to the machine with Bacularis
3.2.1, the package update commands will update Bacularis packages to
the latest version in the repository.

[Study It]

Hello Marcin

As I said, I installed Bacularis using the subscription repos. Now,  can I simply download from Github the latest tar.gz and manually install over the existing version?

Thanks in advance!

[Marcin Haba]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 at 10:56, Study It <study.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Marcin
>
> As I said, I installed Bacularis using the subscription repos. Now, can I simply download from Github the latest tar.gz and manually install over the existing version?
>
> Thanks in advance!

Hello Study It,

The registration in the Bacularis.com user panel is not the
subscription. After registering you have access to free repositories
with major release packages.

For the upgrade to 4.5.0 from GitHub files, here you can find the
manual installation description:

https://bacularis.app/doc/brief/installation.html#install-manually

[Study It]

Hello Marcin,

Updated manually to 4.5.0, thanks for the clear documentation.

Nothing left but to explore and try the new options.

Thanks again!