Introduction Bacula

Introduction

Bacula is an open-source, enterprise-level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks. It is designed to automate backup tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator. 

Architecture

Components

Bacula Director

Server component. Supervisor.

Bacula Console/Admin

Interface for the Director. There are text versions and GUIs:

• BWeb
• BAT
• bConsole

Bacula Client

File daemon installed on the client.

Bacula Storage

Interface to the storage components. Here a share on the NAS.

Catalog

SQL database.

Bacula Monitor

Monitor program. Works with GTK+ (GNOME, KDE, FreeDesktop.org system tray standard).