Is Bacula free?
Bacula, as a free Linux backup software, works with most of the popular variations of Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and a lot more. Its open-source development and design allows the solution as a whole to work well with almost any Linux-based system with both performance and stability.
What is Bacula Linux?
Bacula is a backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. There are Bacula clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X – making it a cross-platform network wide solution.
What is Bacula server?
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits 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.
How do you do a Bacula?
The general flow of running Bacula is:
- cd install-directory.
- Start the Database (if using MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- Start the Daemons with ./bacula start.
- Start the Console program to interact with the Director.
- Run a job.
- When the Volume fills, unmount the Volume, if it is a tape, label a new one, and continue running.
How do I start a Bacula?
The general flow of running Bacula is:
- cd
- Start the Database (if using MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- Start the Daemons with ./bacula start.
- Start the Console program to interact with the Director.
- Run a job.
- When the Volume fills, unmount the Volume, if it is a tape, label a new one, and continue running.
How do I restart Bacula services?
To put the configuration changes that you made into effect, restart Bacula Director and Storage Daemon with these commands:
- sudo service bacula-director restart.
- sudo service bacula-sd restart.
How do I restore from Bacula backup?
In general, to restore a file or a set of files, you must run a restore job. That is a job with Type = Restore. As a consequence, you will need a predefined restore job in your bacula-dir. conf (Director’s config) file.
