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This document is intended to help users to install and try BaculaEnterprise Edition.
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Overview
This white paper presents the Bacula Enterprise Trial version and how to setupBacula and Bweb Enterprise in less than 10 mins.
Scope
This paper will present solutions for Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 and later, whichare not applicable to prior versions. Instructions are presented for Redhat Enterprise5 and Ubuntu LTS Lucid.
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1
What is Bacula Enterprise?
Bacula Enterprise is a set of computer programs that permits the system admin-istrator to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across anetwork of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a singlecomputer and can backup to various types of media, including tape and disk.Bacula Enterprise provides the following key features:
Network Based
All backup and restores are done via the network. This permits Bacula to run on asingle server and backup any computer in your data center.
Centralized Administration
Bacula administration is centralized in the Director. Centralizing the administrationis essential when your network grows beyond one or two computers.
Runs Automatically
Once setup, Bacula runs automatically. Normally a properly configured Bacula
installation requires little maintenance or intervention except when adding new ma-chines or when hardware errors occur.
Performs Bookkeeping
Bacula does the hard bookkeeping by maintaining a catalog of what is backed upand where. If you have hundreds or thousands of machines to be backed up, itis essential that the bookkeeping is automatically maintained by a program ratherthan requiring human intervention.
Multi-platform
Bacula is compatible with a wide range of platforms: *BSD, Unix, Linux, Win32,Mac OSX, and others as well as a large range of hardware.
Modular Design
Bacula’s modular design means it scales well from small shops (one machine) tovery large ones (tens of thousands of machines).
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Multiple Backup Media
Bacula handles a variety of different media such as disk, tape, autochangers. Thereis no need for expensive Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), Bacula knows how to writeto disk out of the box.
Reliable
Bacula includes advance tools for memory and lock management, it is very commonto run it without problems months at a time.
High Performance
Bacula’s modern multi-threaded design allows running multiple simultaneous back-ups and can achieve speeds writing to a single LTO3 tape device of 150 Megabytesper second.
Customizable
Bacula can be easily customized to almost any backup/restore need.
Rapid Restores
Easy and rapid restores using Bacula’s database and graphical user interface.
Advanced Reporting, Notification, Monitoring
Bacula has excellent reporting addons such as bweb, those tools permit to getgraphical and raw statistics for custom reports, billings, trends, optimizations andcapacity planning.Bacula provides very good notifications and monitoring capabilities, and is alsoextremely well integrated to Nagios®Open Source monitoring tool.
Open Source
(AGPLV3). No lock-in. You can see and modify what the code does.
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2
Getting Started with Bacula
Enterprise
2.1 Using Redhat Enterprise
If your system is connected to Internet, you can configure YUM and install packagesand dependencies automatically.
2.1.1 Prepare your System
The setup package allows you to configure your system with Bacula Systems repos-itories.Go on https://www.baculasystems.com/dl/Trial/, select your operating sys-tem, then download and install the bacula-enterprise-setup package.It can be done as root with:
root# URL=https://www.baculasystems.com/dl/Trial/rhel5-64/
root# wget $URL/bacula-enterprise-setup.rpm
root# rpm -ivh bacula-enterprise-setup.rpm
2.1.2 Install Bacula Enterprise
Once YUM is properly configured with the setup package, you can install BaculaEnterprise Trial version with the following command:
root# yum install bacula-enterprise-demo
It’s also possible to use the Redhat graphic package manager for these operations.
2.2 Using Ubuntu LTS
To be able to use APT, you need to install the support for https.
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
Then, you can add the Bacula Systems repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb https://www.baculasystems.com/dl/Trial/lucid-32 lucid main
deb https://www.baculasystems.com/dl/Trial/bweb/lucid-32 lucid bweb
Once done, you can install the demo version with:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bacula-enterprise-demo
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2.3 Getting Started
2.3.1 Starting Bacula Enterprise
Once installed, Bacula Enterprise should be running and start automatically on boot,however, to stop or restart Bacula Enterprise daemons, you can use the followingcommands:
root# /opt/bacula/scripts/bacula start
or per component (bacula-fd, bacula-sd, bacula-dir), use:
root# service bacula-fd restart
To check that Bacula Enterprise is properly installed, you can run the bconsole
tool:root# /opt/bacula/bin/bconsole
Connecting to Director localhost.localdomain:9101
1000 OK: localhost.localdomain-dir Version: 4.0.7 (16 Jun 2011)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*
If your server has a graphical interface installed, you can run bat and get graphicalconsole, just execute bat
To get started with Bacula Enteprise, you can follow this tutorial http://www.
bacula.org/4.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Brief_Tutorial.html
2.3.2 BWeb Enterprise GUIBWeb Enterprise is a web application that uses a web server such as Apacheor Lighttpd. By default, BWeb Enterprise Trial version will be available on the9180/tcp port of your server, pointing your web browser to http://localhost:
9180/
You may have to start the service by yourself with the following command as bacula
user:
bacula$ /opt/bweb/etc/starthttpd
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Supported Systems
This list may help you to find the appropriate code for your system.
Code Corresponding Operating System
rhel5-32 Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x 32 bit
rhel5-64 Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x 64 bit
rhel4-32 Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.x 32 bit
rhel4-64 Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.x 64 bit
rhel6-64 Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.x 64 bit
lucid-32 Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 LTS 32 bit
lucid-64 Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 LTS 64 bit
lenny-32 Debian Lenny 5.0 32 bit
lenny-64 Debian Lenny 5.0 64 bit
squeeze-64 Debian Squeeze 6.0 64 bit
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For More Information
For more information on Bacula Enterprise Edition, or any part of the broadBacula Systems services portfolio, visit http://www.baculasystems.com/index.
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