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. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk. 1
Installation
bacula can be installed with the Pakfire web interface or via the console:
pakfire install bacula
Configuration
The bacula-fd configuration file is located at /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf
.
[root@ipfire ~]# cat /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf
#
# Default Bacula File Daemon Configuration file
#
# For Bacula release 5.0.3 (04 August 2010) -- redhat
#
# There is not much to change here except perhaps the . . .
Usage
There is no web interface for this Addon. To run this Addon open the client console or terminal and access the IPFire box via SSH.
To obtain a list of possible commands:
bacula-fd -?
The output is similar to this:
Copyright (C) 2000-2017 Kern Sibbald.
Version: 9.0.6 (20 November 2017)
Usage: bacula-fd [-f -s] [-c config_file] [-d debug_level]
-c <file> use <file> as configuration file
-d <n>[,<tags>] set debug level to <nn>, debug tags to <tags>
-dt print a timestamp in debug output
-f run in foreground (for debugging)
-g groupid
-k keep readall capabilities
-m print kaboom output (for debugging)
-P do not create pid file
-s no signals (for debugging)
-t test configuration file and exit
-T set trace on
-u userid
-v verbose user messages
-? print this message.