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 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

       This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.

                                           The Network Backup Solution                                 Bacula(8)