Before implementing Bacula Enterprise version, please be sure to read all product specifications in the related White Papers so that you choose compatible platforms for your backup infrastructure. For example, some plugins need specific operating systems to run.
When contracting with Bacula Systems, you will receive a Welcome Package including documentation describing how to contact the Support team and where your Bacula Enterprise software is available. This place is called your download area.
Depending on what you subscribed to at Bacula Systems, your download area gives you access to several entries:
- debs/
Where you will find all the Debian and related flavors packages
- demo/
Where you will find the demo packages as well as the kickstart
- manuals/
The Bacula Enterprise core documentation (cf. (here))
- RPMs/
Where you will find all the Red Hat, SUSE and related flavors packages
- white papers/
Where you will find the complementary documentation (cf. (here))
- Bacula_Enterprise_Edition_Installation_Guide.pdf
The Bacula Enterprise Edition installation guide.
- BaculaSystems-Public-Signature.asc
To be used with the yum, aptitude, yast, etc. tools.
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How Documentation is Organized
The Bacula documentation is composed of the following elements:
- Core manual suite:
- Main Manual
This is the manual where you can find the core documentation: concept, getting started, configuration.
- Console Manual
This manual is intended to present the Console's fundamentals. Many useful Console features are described here.
- Utility Manual
Before using Bacula Enterprise or to validate your regex/wildcard expressions, you may want to use the Bacula utilities like btape, bregex, bwild, etc.
- Problems Manual
As a Bacula Systems customer, you certainly should open a ticket if you have an issue with Bacula Enterprise. If you want to know more about how Bacula operates or how to find a solution for some issues, this manual is for you.
- Developer's Manual
Together with the policies defined by the Bacula team describing how to write the code Bacula users are expecting, this document also presents the Bacula storage format.
- Installation Guide
To help you during the installation process of Bacula Enterprise version, you will find an installation guide at the root directory of your download area. This document will show you how to use the download area the support team has already prepared for you.
- White papers
When setting up your Bacula Enterprise Backup and Restore Solution, you may need some advice to tune the Bacula catalog, manage Disk backups, do Virtual Full, Copy or Migration Jobs. The usage of such features is detailed into our general white papers.
- Plugin documentation
When designing a new plugin, Bacula Systems creates a dedicated technical document. For each plugin you will find a corresponding white paper to help you set it up.
There are several kinds of plugins. Some of them are related to the storage daemon and some others to the file daemon. You can distinguish between them by their names:
- a storage daemon plugin is named xxxx-sd.so
- a file daemon plugin is named yyyy-fd.so
Be sure to install the plugin in the right place (on the File Daemon or the Storage Daemon), to read the related documentation and to set it up correctly before use.
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2025-03-27