Bacula Community Edition is an amazingly powerful open source backup software which works extremely well on private networks. However, if you need to backup workloads that are only reachable over the Internet, your first reflex may be to allow traffic to your Bacula File and Storage Daemons in your firewalls. Certainly, you can safely accomplish this by constraining access to specific source IPs on both sides, but what if you are hosting your Bacula infrastructure behind an ISP providing dynamic IPs? This post provides a solution to backup remote workloads without exposing Bacula’s endpoints to the Internet as such: You…
Backup a Kubernetes PassBolt deployment to a NFS server
PassBolt is a great self-hosted password manager which has support for a highly available deployment using Kubernetes. I have been using PassBolt for almost a year now and while I wish I had the ability to store files into it in a similar fashion as with KeePass, the fact that I have access to my passwords from my computers as well as my mobile device has prompted me to exclusively use PassBolt. I favoured a deployment based on the Helm chart using MariaDB as the database backend and even though the data is stored on a PersistentVolume hosted on a…
Backing up your homelab using Bacula
Like most homelab enthusiast out there, I came to the realization that several workloads I’m hosting contribute significantly to the digital quality of life of my household and while I tend to ensure such workloads have minimal single points of failure, the fact remains that mistakes DO happen which could cause significant data loss. Backing up important data is essential to facilitate service recovery in such situations. Because I’m hosting rather large amounts of data, such as video surveillance footage, I wanted a backup solution that would allow me to select recovery points going back at least 30 days without…