The Bacula book

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.

1 Introduction

• Introduction to Bacula
• Description of the corecomponents of bacula and their interaction.

 

2 Installation

• Option to get to an running bacula syste: From import of the appliance to selfcompiling.

 

3 First steps

• Get familiar with Bacula with first practical exercises.

 

4 Backup techniques and concepts

• Intoduction to the basic terms of incremental, differential and full backup, backup interval and retention period.

 

5 Configuring Bacula

• Bacula configuration: How does the preinstalled configuration work and how can it be adapted?

 

6 Backup hardware

• How can backup hardware be configured for the use with Bacula? Harddisks, changeable media, single tape drives and tapechangers.

 

7 Operating Bacula

• Detailed description of the usage of bacula. Deep description of the usage of the bacula console.

 

8 Advanced applications

• Detailed description of the Bacula ressources with extended configuration examples.

 

9 Advanced configuration

• COnfiguration of advanced bacula features: copies und migrations, data encryption, running jobs in parallel, virtual backup und backup throu firewalls

 

10 Internal processes

• Description of different internal workflows in Bacula: communication during backup, database details.

 

11 Extended Applications

• Combination of Bacula with third-party software: Backup of virtual machines of VMware or Citrix Xenserver. How can the Bacula Console be automated?

 

12 Emergency restore

• How can the Bacula system itself be recovered after a disaster?

 

13 Troubleshooting

• Some typical problems, their cause and fixing.

 

I Appendix

• 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.