Bacula, network-based backup, recovery & verification system	
http://www.bacula.org
===============================================================================

The 'bacula-common' package provides some of the common infrastructure
for Bacula.  You can find Bacula READMEs and other documentation files
there.

BASIC INFORMATION
-----------------

To use bacula you must install one of the flavors of director,
depending on your preferred database, onto a server.

You must also install bacula-sd on the machine where you will be
storing your backed-up data.  And you'll need bacula-fd on any machine
that you want to back up.

The installation will run the necessary daemons automatically, but to
get any backups working you must customize the relevant configuration
files in /etc/bacula as described in the bacula manual.  Once you have
edited the files you should issue an appropriate /etc/init.d/bacula-xx
force-reload.

NETWORK ENABLING
----------------

By default, Debian's Bacula packages install config files in which the
servers listen only on localhost by default.  If you want to be able
to do backups over the network, you'll need to find the lines in
bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf, and bacula-fd.conf that reference
127.0.0.1 and remove them.

PACKAGES
========

The virtual package 'bacula-director' is provided by

	- bacula-director-sqlite3
        - bacula-director-sqlite
	- bacula-director-mysql
	- bacula-director-pgsql

These binaries have been compiled against the database indicated
in the package's name.

CONSOLE
=======

The package bacula-console provides the administration console for
Bacula, so that users can contact the director.

 There is, in fact, a wrapper
script to ease usage by users: /usr/bin/bconsole

The GNOME version of the admin console is contained in the
bacula-console-gnome package.

The wxWidgets-based console is included in the bacula-console-wx
package.

There are no wrappers for bacula-console-gnome nor
bacula-wxconsole since they will likely be run from the corresponding
launchers with appropriate '-c /etc/bacula/<flavor>.conf' arguments.
The convenient '.menu' files are provided, too.

USERS & SECURITY
================

Make sure you customize the passwords in the files in /etc/bacula.

The installation will create a bacula user on the system, and the
daemons and RunBefore/RunAfter jobs will run as that user.  However,
the file director must run as root, as will your ClientRunBefore/After
jobs.  Installation of a director will ask you for a database user to
use.

You can run Bacula consoles as any user, but the user you use will
need to be able to read the console config files.  These files are, by
default, under /etc/bacula.  You'll need to specify the config file
with -c for any of the GUI consoles.

FURTHER READING
===============

See the Bacula documentation on the upstream author's website,
http://www.bacula.org.

-- John Goerzen

based on a file by Jose Luis Tallon

 -- John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, Sat, 13 May 2006 10:18:42 -0500