Bacula(8)						      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 com-
       puter data across a network of computers of different kinds.  In technical terms, it is a network Client/Server based backup program.  Bac-
       ula 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 admin-
       istrator uses the Bacula Director to schedule backups and to recover files.  For more details see the Director Services Daemon Design Docu-
       ment 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).  Cur-
       rently, 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 configura-
       tion  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 phys-
       ical  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  ser-
       vices 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  ser-
       vices  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 efficicient 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 GPL version 2.0, as described in the file LICENSE included with the source distribution.

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