Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of. Version 9 contains a configuration module that allows the backup administrator to change bacula backup. Bacula uses an sql database, such as mysql or mariadb, to manage its backups catalog. Bacula is a open source backup utility that allows you to create and. The steps for creating a pool, adding volumes to it, and writing software labels to the volumes, may seem. Bacula uses an sql database, such as mysql or postresql, to manage its backups catalog. Apr, 2020 by default installing the bacula package will use a postgresql database for the catalog. Before bacula will read or write a volume, the physical volume must have a bacula software label so that bacula can be sure the correct volume is mounted. It offers full support for mysql, oracle, postgresql, microsoft sql server, microsoft access, ibm db2, sqlite, firebird, and many other database management systems. In this tutorial, i am using password as centos wherever i need to setup password.
Run database update script g copy existing configuration conf. Bacula is a sophisticated backup system which can be scaled easily due to the clientserver relationship of its components. Enter a new password and confirm it, or leave the prompt blank to generate a random password. Bacula is an open source, network backup software, used to allow the system administrators to manage backup, recovery and send the verification of datas from any systems in any location across the network. Download backup software bacula enterprise edition, and install on either vmware or virtual box vms. Introduction to bacula, how to install, configure, backup and.
This is usually done using the label command in the console program. This will install mysql, but will not prompt you to set a password or make any other configuration changes. It includes access to our industryleading global endpoint deduplication as well as our vss plugin for mssql, exchange and system state. If you are using one of the new modes such as ansiiso compatibility, you may experience problems. Apr 08, 2019 it should start to download, install and start the configure process for the bacula and any packages it relies on. This is a script to be setup as client run before job in bacula. Introduction to bacula, how to install, configure, backup. Write the name that you later will give to the bacula. The bacula director service supervises all the backup, restore, verify, and archive operations. On the module config page of the bacula module, you need to set the database or file containing bacula information to just something like bacula, not the full path to the mysql database file. Bacula server installation and configuration on centos.
In this tutorial, let us see how to install and configure bacula on ubuntu 15. Version 9 contains a configuration module that allows the backup administrator to change bacula backup settings without editing text files. Script in shell for prepare incrementale mysql backup from bacula. Bacula configuration scripts for bacula configuration management motivation bacula s worst weakness is configuration. Note, for security reasons, this directory should be unique to bacula and not readwritable by any other usergroup than bacula is running under. Please note that we have a new 4096 bit signing key that we have put into place. Director stanza, with new passwords, for each director messages stanza. Baculum bacula gui is the official web graphic interface of the bacula project bacula. The mysql backup tool in bacula enterprise edition is designed to both simplify and accelerate the backup of your mysql databases. Once done, ensure that you have all the configuration files in etc bacula. As i mentioned in the other thread, i havent used bacula in years though i do keep it running for old tape access, so some of this may not work anymore.
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of bacula browse files at joinlogin. It can be used to backup myisam tables exclusively. Rubycula ruby classes for quering and manipulating bacula configuration. Defines where the bacula configuration files should be placed during a make install command. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos 6. Scalable enterprise backup software with flexibility and speed. During the installation process it defaulted to postgres on my system. It includes access to our industryleading global endpoint deduplication as well as.
This section explain how to create the configuration file which contain your custom settings. Based on source forge downloads, bacula is the most popular open source backup program. Copy nf into etcbacula and verify the owner for bacula access. Another advantage is that bacula s percona backup software does not require the use of large temporary files.
With this script, you will get one file per database in the varlocalmysqlbackups directory. Backup your bacula configuration files on the server etc bacula directory. Cookbook to install and configure a server of bacula backup solution. Apr 21, 2020 to install it, update the package index on your server with apt. Finally try to connect from the bacula server to the database server as user bacula. 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. Learn more about the latest releases of bacula and download your free system backup software. The following script will first query mysql to get a list of all databases, and then automatically create a backup of each one. Enterprise backup features of bacula enterprise edition. Bacula enterprise edition is a set of subscriptionbased enterprise data backup solutions which empower data centers to truly escape data volume price traps. Mysql application password for bacula director mysql. Bacula enterprise integrates the core features from bacula community projects with specific advanced technologies to create one of the most powerful. Contribute to glenscbacula backupmysql development by creating an account on github. May 18, 2017 failed to connect to the bacula database.
Designed to save your valuable time, the system administrator does not need to know the internals of mysql. Home bacula linux server topic step by step bacula 7 configuration in centos 7 step by step bacula 7 configuration in centos 7 bacula. However, ive selected the bacula module configuration as follow. When installing bacula mysql on bacula server, installer tries to create bacula user and database on mysql, but those are failed becasue mysql s root users password is not empty, so its neccessary to create database for bacula on mysql. How install bacula backup server and client on centos osradar. Step by step deployment of bacula backup server on ubuntu 15. Bacula the best free enterprise open source backup software.
Mar 25, 2019 bacula uses an sql database, such as mysql or mariadb, to manage its backups catalog. Debian details of package baculadirectormysql in buster. On your windows server, double click the downloaded installation file to start the bacula file daemon installer. Config starts with block, which you can define several database instances to be backed up. Nov 25, 2015 bacula configuration scripts for bacula configuration management motivation bacula s worst weakness is configuration. Once again set the mysql application password for bacula director mysql. Debian details of package baculadirectormysql in jessie. Install bacula in this howto i am using mysql for database, you can use either postgresql or mysql. How install bacula backup server and client on centos.
Apr 09, 2015 bacula is an opensource network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. Because this leaves your installation of mysql insecure, we will address this next. Please see the bacula binary package download page on. These binaries, though a bit old, do work with the current 9. This has the advantage of being faster to backup and faster to recover as you can copy back the binary files stright from backup. On the module config page of the bacula module, you need to set the database or file containing bacula information to just something like bacula, not the full path to the mysql. This has the advantage of being faster to backup and faster to recover as you can copy.
Contribute to glenscbaculabackupmysql development by creating an. Bacula bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of comp. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the server components of bacula on an ubuntu 14. It should start to download, install and start the configure process for the bacula and any packages it relies on. Install php and php modules for the database youve installed for bacula. How to install and configure bacula data backup spiceworks. Bacula server installation and configuration on centos linuxgateway. During the install process you will be asked to supply a password for the database owner of the bacula database. Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Now, configure mysql for bacula, for this run the following scripts, i used password as redhat.
Baculum 9 graphical bacula configuration, administration. Hello and welcome, our todays article s on installation and configuration of bacula an open source network backup solution on ubuntu 15. You can use either mysql or postgresql database but in this article. Bacula is an open source, network backup software, used to allow the. A bacula job is a configuration resource that defines the work that bacula must perform to backup or restore a particular client. Maybe it is not set up, or the module configuration is incorrect. Perform manual or scheduled backups and restores of configuration files managed by webmin modules. Jan 22, 2012 creation of bacula mysql tables succeeded. The best enterprise data backup and recovery software. Bacula enterprise is the best enterprise data backup software solutions for linux, windows and other server and desktop environments. Adding one more host to your current setup involves the following steps. If you have only one machine available then you can run bacula and mysql on it, you dont need seperate machines for it. If the machine and the operating system are identical, you can simply copy the bacula file daemon binary file bacula fd as well as its configuration file bacula nf then modify the name and password in the conf file to be unique. Jul 08, 20 in this article, we will discuss how to configure bacula to perform remote backups.
Bacula uses an sql database to manage its information. Mysql backup, backup of postgresql database, oracle backup, sap hana backup and others. Then install bacual and mysql server using command. This module uses techniques that ensure consistency of the whole backup. Well cover how to install and configure bacula, an open source, distributed and highly customizable backup solution. During the installation process youll be asked several configuration questions, starting with the setup of postfix. Bat is short for bacula administration tool, and is a featurerich gui tool which enables lessexperienced bacula users to easily and effectively administer and monitor bacula. Installing and configuring mysql installing and configuring mysql phase i. Dec 28, 2015 step by step deployment of bacula backup server on ubuntu 15. Enter the following command to install mysql server. We can once again register the yumapt repositories for client installation in the same way as the server, which facilitates future updates, or download manuals of packages and install.
On fedora 29, install phpmysqlnd instead of php mysql. How to configuraing bacula with webmin on ubuntu 16. Contribute to glenscbacula backup mysql development by creating an account on github. By default installing the bacula package will use a postgresql database for the catalog. Typically you must restart the bacula daemon then if no errors are printed success. Be sure to make corresponding additions to the directors configuration file bacula nf. 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.
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