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 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 three 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 GNOME GUI interface that for the moment (07
       October 2005) is far from complete, but quite functional as it has most
       the  capabilities  of the shell Console.  The third version is a wxWid-
       gets GUI with an interactive file restore.  It also  has  most  of  the
       capabilities of the shell console, allows command completion with tabu-
       lation, and gives you instant help about the command you are typing.


       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 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
       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 efficicient restoration and Volume management.
       Bacula currently supports three different databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
       and SQLite, 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.

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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