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Bacula(8)              DragonFly System Manager's Manual             Bacula(8)


NAME

       Bacula - The Network Backup Solution


SYNOPSIS

       bacula-dir - Director
       bacula-fd - File daemon or Client
       bacula-sd - Storage daemon
       bconsole - Console to control Bacula
       wx-console - GUI Console


DESCRIPTION

       Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits you (or the system
       administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer
       data across a network of computers of different kinds.  In technical
       terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program.  Bacula is
       relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced
       storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost
       or damaged files.  Due to its modular design, Bacula is scalable from
       small single computer systems to systems consisting of hundreds of
       computers located over a large network.

       Bacula Director service consists of the program that supervises all the
       backup, restore, verify and archive operations.  The system
       administrator uses the Bacula Director to schedule backups and to
       recover files.  For more details see the Director Services Daemon
       Design Document in the Bacula Developer's Guild.  The Director runs as
       a daemon or a service (i.e.  in the background).

       Bacula Console services is the program that allows the administrator or
       user to communicate with the Bacula Director (see above).  Currently,
       the Bacula Console is available in two versions.  The first and
       simplest is to run the Console program in a shell window (i.e.  TTY
       interface).  Most system administrators will find this completely
       adequate.  The second version is a Qt 4.2 GUI interface named bat that
       has more features than the bconsole program.

       Bacula File services (or Client program) is the software program that
       is installed on the machine to be backed up.  It is specific to the
       operating system on which it runs and is responsible for providing the
       file attributes and data when requested by the Director.  The File
       services are also responsible for the file system dependent part of
       restoring the file attributes and data during a recovery operation.
       For more details see the File Services Daemon Design Document in the
       Bacula Developer's Guide.  This program runs as a daemon on the machine
       to be backed up, and in some of the documentation, the File daemon is
       referred to as the Client (for example in Bacula's configuration file).
       In addition to Unix/Linux File daemons, there is a Windows File daemon
       (normally distributed in binary format).  The Windows File daemon runs
       on all currently known Windows versions (2K, 2003,  XP, and Vista).

       Bacula Storage services consist of the software programs that perform
       the storage and recovery of the file attributes and data to the
       physical backup media or volumes.  In other words, the Storage daemon
       is responsible for reading and writing your tapes (or other storage
       media, e.g.  files).  For more details see the Storage Services Daemon
       Design Document in the Bacula Developer's Guide.  The Storage services
       runs as a daemon on the machine that has the backup device (usually a
       tape drive).

       Catalog services are comprised of the software programs responsible for
       maintaining the file indexes and volume databases for all files backed
       up.  The Catalog services permit the System Administrator or user to
       quickly locate and restore any desired file.  The Catalog services sets
       Bacula apart from simple backup programs like tar and bru, because the
       catalog maintains a record of all Volumes used, all Jobs run, and all
       Files saved, permitting efficient restoration and Volume management.
       Bacula currently supports three different databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
       and SQLite3, one of which must be chosen when building Bacula.


OPTIONS

       See the HTML/PDF documentation at:
        <http://www.bacula.org>
       for details of the command line options.


CONFIGURATION

       Each daemon has its own configuration file which must be tailored for
       each particular installation.  Please see the HTML/PDF documentation
       for the details.


SEE ALSO

       The HTML manual installed on your system (typically found in
       /usr/share/doc/bacula-<version>) or the online manual at:
       <http://www.bacula.org>


BUGS

       See <http://bugs.bacula.org>


AUTHOR

       Kern Sibbald

   Current maintainer
       Kern Sibbald

   Contributors
       An enormous list of past and former persons who have devoted their time
       and energy to this project -- thanks. See the AUTHORS file in the main
       Bacula source directory.


COPYRIGHT

       Bacula is distributed under a modified AGPL version 3.0, as described
       in the file LICENSE included with the source distribution.

                          The Network Backup Solution                Bacula(8)

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