Here you find an overview over the chapters of the bacula book and their contents. You can also download the Table of contents as a PDF file.
Intoduction to the basic terms of incremental, differential and full backup, backup interval and retention period.
Bacula configuration: How does the preinstalled configuration work and how can it be adapted?
How can backup hardware be configured for the use with Bacula? Harddisks, changeable media, single tape drives and tapechangers.
Detailed description of the usage of bacula. Deep description of the usage of the bacula console.
Detailed description of the Bacula ressources with extended configuration examples.
COnfiguration of advanced bacula features: copies und migrations, data encryption, running jobs in parallel, virtual backup und backup throu firewalls
Description of different internal workflows in Bacula: communication during backup, database details.
Combination of Bacula with third-party software: Backup of virtual machines of VMware or Citrix Xenserver. How can the Bacula Console be automated?
How can the Bacula system itself be recovered after a disaster?
Some typical problems, their cause and fixing.
Description of the installation of the Bacula Client on Windows, Solaris und Mac OS. Detailed reference with tables for all Bacula Ressources, datatypes, variable replacements etc.