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Bacula EnterpriseAn administration tool for each AdministratorBacula Systems offers multiple choices to configure, deploy, manage, report andanalyze your Bacula Enterprise Edition infrastructure.If you are an expert in Systems Administration and prefer working with commandlines, BConsole is the right admin tool for you, completely integrated into aGnu/Linux & Unix environment.BAT is a graphical admin tool, specifically dedicated to help you manage yourEnterprise Edition backup and restore jobs. Thanks to its graphical capacities,it can be easily used by your Operations Team.Both BConsole and BAT are included in your Bacula Enterprise subscription.Finally, BWeb Management Suite™ is the most powerful and completeadmin tool that Bacula Systems offers. Indeed, within a Web based graphicalenvironment it allows you to configure and deploy your Bacula Enterprise Editioninfrastructure in one click! And, thanks to its wizards as well as its onlinedocumentation, the whole process could not be easier.BWeb Management Suite also brings management, reporting and analysiscapacities at the highest level, allowing both Systems Administrators and Op-erations Teams to easily control and constantly improve the Bacula EnterpriseEdition installation.BWeb Management Suite is included free of charge with the purchase of atraining session at Bacula Systems.So, when deciding on the right admin tool to manage your Bacula EnterpriseEdition infrastructure, the choice is simple and inexpensive!

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Key Benefits

• All-in-one solution to man-age your Bacula EnterpriseEdition infrastructure

◾ Configuration set up andmanagement◾ Enhanced reporting capa-bilities◾ Multi-director manage-ment (future version)◾ Included with all pur-chased training sessionsfor existing or new sub-scriptionsa

• Management and reporting

◾ Web based Graphical in-terface◾ Quickly highlights prob-lems◾ Password, LDAP, ADSauthentication

• Configuration

◾ Wizards to create newjobs, clients, storage andnew backup policies◾ Modern and intuitive GUIto edit resources (abilityto search, rename, checkdependencies)◾ Online documentationlinked through the Con-figuration interface◾ Diagnostic toolsaTraining invoiced at time of or-

der and must be taken within 6months.

BWeb™ Management SuiteThe easiest way to get your Bacula Enterprise Edition up and running,

to manage it and to maintain it

Powerful! BWeb™ Management Suite is a web application that allows simple and rapidmonitoring and administration of Bacula Jobs in a single Director, multi-client productionenvironment.In Bacula Enterprise version 6.2, the BWeb Management Suite integrates a Bacula Enterpriseconfiguration GUI module which is designed to help you configure the Bacula Enterprise con-figuration files including bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf, bacula-fd.conf and bconsole.conf.

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Report, analyze and manage

Ease of use is the main benefit that BWeb Man-agement Suite brings to the Administrator andOperations teams.

• BWeb Management Suite offers a numberof wizards which support the Administra-tor in his daily work. The wizards providea step by step set of required actions thatgraphically guide the Administrator to per-form quick and easy creation and modifi-cation of configuration files.

• BWeb Management Suite allows checkingrunning jobs and facilitates the creation ofnew jobs!

• BWeb Management Suite provides diag-nostic tools enabling the Administrator tocheck that the database is well configuredand BWeb Management Suite is installedproperly.

Check DB configuration

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New Configuration GUI includes wizards to create new Jobs, Clients, Storages as well asnew Backup polices. This modern and intuitive GUI allows resources editing with “search”,“rename”, and “check dependencies” features. The interface is easily customizable and allowsAdministrators to define default values for all resources. A simple color legend identifies clearlyif a directive comes from the current object, a user defaults choice or from a “JofDefs”resource.

New Online Help mode displays automatic help text suggestions when the user searchesdata types.

New configuration tool

BWeb Management Suite offers a variety ofWizards which support the Administrator whenhe or she needs to create new jobs; providing achronological set of required actions that guidethe Administrator to perform the jobs in no time!

BWeb Management Suite package is availablefor:

• RHEL 5 and RHEL 6

• Debian 6.0

• Ubuntu LTS

and is compatible with:

• Bacula Enterprise version 6.2 and highera

• PostgreSQL and MySQL catalogs

Configuration screenshots

aFor Bacula Enterprise 6.0.x and 4.0.x you will need to upgrade to BWeb Management Suite and configurethe new BWeb configuration items

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Key Benefits• Graphical user interface

• Available for Windows andLinux systems

• Undockable windows

• Powerful graphical restorewith tree browsing

• Media management

• Multiple directors

Bacula Administration Tool

BAT management features

“BAT” is a feature-rich GUI tool which enablesall Bacula Enterprise users to effectively manageBacula Enterprise Edition.

BAT is installed at your convenience on Windowsor Linux platforms and offers graphical consolecommands as well as a powerful restore interface.The GUI features include useful and nice graph-ics:

• Undockable windows of all interfaces

• A page selector for searching and display-ing interfaces

• A console command window for enteringstandard text console commands

• And a Preferences interface for listing lim-its and debugging

In many of the graphical display panes, the administrator can right-click tobring up a context sensitive menu that provides several features and optionschoices. BAT also has a comprehensive online help manual explaining the interface

Media and restore management

and some advanced features including:

• Media management:

◾ Modify Volume parameters◾ Label a new volume◾ Select jobs on a volume in Job List di-rectly from media interface, and muchmore!

• High performance restore of backed updata with GUI tree browsing of files anddirectories, selection as well as pre-restoreinterfaces to assist in selecting jobs for thisrestore method

• Listing Interfaces with:

◾ Processed backup jobs that have run◾ Clients (perform 4 commands on theclient within context)◾ Filesets or the job resources (perform 8commands on the job within context)◾ Pools and volumes in each pool

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Key Benefits• Menu driven interface

• Highly intuitive

• TTY version of Bacula En-terprise Console

• Easy ’over the network’ ac-cess (SSH and so on)

• Multiple directors

• Useful when scripting BaculaEnterprise

BConsoleLightweight communication toolBConsole is the TTY version of the Bacula Enterprise console. Highly intuitive, menu driven,it permits the Administrator, or authorized users, to interact with Bacula Enterprise, deter-mine the status of a particular job, examine the contents of the Catalog as well as performcertain tape handlings with the BConsole program.BConsole runs on every major operating systems like Gnu Linux / Unix, Windows and Solaris.In a certain way, BConsole is like a Command Line Interface (CLI) for Bacula Enterprise.

BConsole is securedThe BConsole configuration file describes which user is able to interact with which Director.The Administrator can give rights to a specific user or group to restore a specific client orrun a specific job. All rights are managed through ACL like directives into the bconsole.conffile.

Scripting Bacula from outsideWith BConsole, the Administrator is able to run all Console Commands. Those are very usefulwhen one wants to use them on Run Scripts directives or through Cron Jobs for example.

*list volumes pool=www-pool+---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+| mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |+---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+| 134 | www-0001 | Append | 1 | 2,766,556,763 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-21 10:48:54 || 135 | www-0002 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,030 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2012-12-29 09:36:23 || 136 | www-0003 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,899,120 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2012-12-29 12:33:07 || 137 | www-0004 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,907,236 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 05:45:02 || 138 | www-0005 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,412 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 08:24:11 || 139 | www-0006 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,900,252 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 10:16:00 || 140 | www-0007 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,280 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 07:41:36 || 142 | www-0009 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,869 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-11 04:45:15 || 143 | www-0010 | Full | 1 | 8,589,901,533 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 05:03:51 || 144 | www-0011 | Full | 1 | 8,589,900,533 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 06:07:17 || 145 | www-0012 | Full | 1 | 8,589,931,147 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 04:35:22 || 146 | www-0013 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | File | || 147 | www-0014 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | || 148 | www-0015 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | || 149 | www-0016 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | File | || 150 | www-0017 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | || 151 | www-0018 | Full | 1 | 8,589,906,905 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 05:02:16 || 152 | www-0020 | Full | 1 | 8,589,901,399 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 06:03:48 || 153 | www-0019 | Full | 1 | 8,589,900,999 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 06:50:41 || 154 | www-0021 | Full | 1 | 8,589,898,996 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 07:41:23 || 155 | www-0022 | Full | 1 | 8,589,899,538 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 06:50:11 |+---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

*restore

First you select one or more JobIds that contain filesto be restored. You will be presented several methodsof specifying the JobIds. Then you will be allowed toselect which files from those JobIds are to be restored.

To select the JobIds, you have the following choices: 1: List last 20 Jobs run 2: List Jobs where a given File is saved 3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select 4: Enter SQL list command 5: Select the most recent backup for a client 6: Select backup for a client before a specified time 7: Enter a list of files to restore 8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time 9: Find the JobIds of the most recent backup for a client 10: Find the JobIds for a backup for a client before a specified time 11: Enter a list of directories to restore for found JobIds 12: Select full restore to a specified Job date 13: CancelSelect item: (1-13):

BConsole lets the Administrator:

• Manage his backups and restores manually (run, stop, start, . . . )

• Manage Media (label volume, update autochanger’s slots)

• Show internal Bacula Enterprise information (SQL requests)

• Interact with the Bacula Enterprise through “Console Commands”

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