Bacula Reference Manaual

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It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers.Kern SibbaldJuly 30, 2006This manual documents Bacula version 1.38.11 (24 July 2006)Copyrightc

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1999-2006, Kern SibbaldPermission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify thisdocument under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,Version 1.2 published by the Free Software Foundation; with noInvariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ”GNU FreeDocumentation License”.

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Contents

What is Bacula?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Who Needs Bacula?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Bacula Components or Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Bacula Conﬁguration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Conventions Used in this Document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Quick Start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13What Bacula is Not. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Interactions Between the Bacula Services. . . . . . . . . . . 18Current State of Bacula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19What is Implemented. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Advantages of Bacula Over Other Backup Programs. . . . . 21Current Implementation Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Design Limitations or Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Supported Operating Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Supported Operating Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Supported Tape Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

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