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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

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 com-
       puters located over a large network.

       Bacula Director service consists	of the program that supervises all the
       backup, restore,	verify and archive operations.	The system administra-
       tor  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 ser-
       vice (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 sim-
       plest is	to run the Console program in a	shell window (i.e.  TTY	inter-
       face).  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 op-
       erating	system	on  which it runs and is responsible for providing the
       file attributes and data	when requested by the Director.	 The File ser-
       vices 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	physi-
       cal backup media	or volumes.  In	other words, the Storage daemon	is re-
       sponsible 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
       This man	page document is released under	the BSD	2-Clause license.

			  The Network Backup Solution		     Bacula(8)

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