Clients and a client or file daemon may permit access by multiple directors. I found some documentation that even shows a server check box for the client installer. Bacula is an open source network backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. Bacula dir\bin32\nf windows console bacula dir\bin32\nf. A bacula client backup clients is a server that will be backed up and runs the file daemon fd component. Bacula is a downloadable universal application that serves software users as a functional and efficient utility program. Disaster recovery for windows systems has been a hot topic for years. Gitolite3 revision control 01 install gitolite 02 add users 03 add repositories. The latest version of windows client found at bacula site is in version 5.
Bacula is an open source network backup solution that permits you to backup and restore the data from a local or a group of remote networked computers and vice versa. Chat, the simple but powerful open source web chat platform. Bacula deduplication with bacula enterprise linux hint. I saw mention that the windows client installer should allow it to be installed.
Bacula director daemon unable to authenticate windows 7 client. Bacula is a set of open source, computer programs that permit you or the system administrator to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin in. In this scenario we will add and backup a windows client using bweb management suite. No local backups will be stored on the remote client machine, so not all of the bacula components need to be installed. A backup job generally consists of a fileset, a client, a schedule for one or several levels or. Bacula is for me the best backup software that i used. Bacula enterprise client software should be installed on your windows client.
There are bacula clients for linux, windows, and mac os x making it a crossplatform network wide solution. Both 32 and 64bit hardware platforms are supported at this time. Sir, do you have any sites or documentation of how to build, compile and configure bacula backup. Installing the bacula file daemon on the windows client file daemon.
To run this scenario you will need any version of a windows. Bacula has been described by its developers as the most popular open source network backup solution. Adding your windows 10 client to bacula enterprise server. First let us install bacual and mysql server using command. Installing bacula windows client so we have configured bacula in bacula with tape autochanger and it working, so now we need to make it works with windows client and windows cluster. Bacula server installation and configuration on centos. 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 baculas configuration file. That is, you can backup and restore linux, unix, sun, and windows machines to the same volume. Looking over the site, i see several places where it implies it is possible to run bacula director or server on windows. Allowing the bacula server director access to the windows host optional in this section, well go through an issue that may arise after you install the windows bacula client. Then well install bacula server on a vm running ubuntu server 18. The windows version of bacula at the current time only the file daemon or client program has been thouroughly tested on windows and is suitable for a production environment.
When testing, i discovered that the bacula client was not added to the firewall, and the bacula server was therefore unable to contact it and initiate the backup. Bacula bacula is a backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. Bacula director, bacula file daemon, bacula storage daemon and bacula console. Take a look at bacula advanced free enterpriseready open source backup software bacula community 20150304 20150304. One can install the windows version of bacula from the binaries.
Use putty on a windows box to log onto the client linux machine and install. As a consequence, when we speak of the windows version of bacula below, we are referring to the file daemon client only. This can be different for each client but must match in the client nf and the bacula servers nf files. These binaries can, in principle, be used with any dirsd 9. How to configure remote backups using bacula in an ubuntu. These binaries, though a bit old, do work with the current 9. Now, edit nf file on client machine and do the following changes as mentioned in red circles. Bacula is a free tool that allows the admin to manage backup, recovery and send the verification of data from any systems in any location across the network. However all the traffic that you send to bacula is actually being received by the stray command from an old instance of bacula, not bacula itself. Install the the baculafd filedaemon and the bconsole bacula console on this machine with aptget using the baculaclient metapackage. It is very flexible and robust, which makes it, while slightly cumbersome to configure, suitable for backups in many situations. For information about bacula in general, refer to linuxbacula disaster recovery for windows server 2012 r2 using bacula. The wiki supplements the existing extensive documentation on bacula when looking for information, be sure to check out the full manual as well as this wiki.
Client installation and bacula free plugins as shown in figure 3, adjust the bacula client name if desired free, and a password for the director access on this. Unfortunately, this wont work on freebsd as the watch command from ports has different syntax. Bacula is composed by several components, each one doing a different task. The client template can be sent to it to add configuration settings to the server. It is enterpriselevel opensource and supports linux, unix, windows, and macos backup clients. On windows xp, when the bacula file server is ready to serve files, an icon. How install bacula backup server and client on centos osradar. There are bacula clients for linux, windows, and mac making it a crossplatform network wide solution.
Backup client configuration department of genetics. Nessa video aula vou demonstrar como fazer o install do client bacula em um windows server 2008 r2 x64. Bacula client and windows cluster service ithierarchy inc. A commandline interface that allows the backup administrator to interact with, and control, bacula director.
Windows client custom installation as in figure 2, choose the software you want to install in this example, the windows client and the accompanying free plugins. In this section, i will show you how to add the windows client that you want to backup using bacula enterprise server from bacula enterprise configuration web interface. Univention is the most important producer of open source complete solutions, the debian based enterprise linux distribution univention corporate server ucs, identity and infrastructure management systems and groupware and desktop solutions in the germanspeaking world bareos can be installed on ucs systems with just one click, using the. Any number of jobs and clients can be backed up to a single volume. Backup a windows client using bweb management suite. Linux, solaris, freebsd, netbsd, windows, mac os x, openbsd, and more. The third section looks at how to configure the server to perform a manual backup via the bacula console and in the last section well configure and perform a.
On one machine only one version of bacula can be run so when a file daemon is installed on the same machine as the director and storage daemon it should be upgraded to the same version too. Bacula backup windows linux hi, i have previously just put up bacula in linux against other linux clients, but now i have to use winbacula on a windows server to backup lotus domino administrator and got wondering if the client on windows works as the once in linux. Bacula is a set of computer programs for managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network. Bacula is made up of several components and services used to manage which files to backup and backup locations. This article describes how to install the bareos client software on a linux and windows client and how to include a client into your backup. When a volume is full, bacula automatically requests the next volume and continues the backup. Bacula supports linux, unix, windows, and macos backup clients, and a range of professional backup devices including tape libraries. I also am successfully using this to backup windows 2012 r2 hyperv virtual machines in a clustered environment, and windows clustered file server. Best bacula windows alternative to backup windows 10. In this tutorial, let us see how to install and configure bacula on ubuntu 15.
Optimized to function for the mac, windows and linux operating systems, bacula is an opensourced, enterpriseready, network backup solution enabling management, backup, recovery and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. How install bacula backup server and client on centos. How to install and configure bacula data backup spiceworks. The procedure to setup backup server using bacula and webmin is explained in this article. Run netstat on the windows host and and look for any processes listening on port 9102. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. Getting started with open broadcaster software obs duration.
Bacula is a backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. Bacula is very easy in terms of installation and configuration with many advanced storage management features. Still, it is important to have cursory knowledge of the various bacula components, so we will go over them now. In this section, i will show you how to install bacula enterprise client software on windows 10 correctly. This is the wiki for bacula bacula is heavyduty backup software that is crossplatform, free softwareopen source and networksavvy.
Are you looking for a free backup software for linux, windows, vmware or mac. Fdmpasswd is the password the various monitors use to connect to you client file daemon and is used in the nf files in the director section wher the name ends in. Labeled volumes, preventing accidental overwriting at least by bacula. Chat desktop client is the official desktop app for rocket. Its tested on macos, windows and linux and delivers a superb array of tools and features.
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