This article is about computer backup software. For the penile bone found in some mammals, see baculum. For the genus of sea snail, see Bacula (gastropod).
Bacula is an open-source, enterprise-level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks. It is designed to automate backup tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator.
Bacula supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and macOS backup clients, and a range of professional backup devices including tape libraries. Administrators and operators can configure the system via a command line, GUI or web interface; its back-end is a catalog of information stored by MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
Bacula is a set of computer programs for managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network—providing a backup solution for mixed operating system environments.
Bacula is open-source and released under the AGPL version 3 license with exceptions to permit linking with OpenSSL and distributing Windows binaries.[2]
Bacula is available under a "dual license" (see Multi-licensing) AGPLv3 or Proprietary license. Several entities offer commercial support for the AGPL "Bacula community version" while Bacula Systems[3] sells various levels of annual support contracts for "Bacula Enterprise Edition", which contains various non-GPL components developed in-house.
In common with other dual-license software, components developed for the Bacula Enterprise Edition are released into Bacula Community edition after some period of exclusivity to the proprietary version.
Since April 2002, Bacula has over 2 million downloads, which makes it the most downloaded open-source backup program.[4]
Featuresedit
Bacula's features include:
Network optionsedit
TCP/IP – client–server communication uses standard ports and services instead of RPC for NFS, SMB, etc.; this eases firewall administration and network security
The client software, executed by a "file daemon" running on a Bacula client, supports multiple operating systems.[7]
Considerationsedit
By default, Bacula's differential and incremental backups are based on system time stamps. Consequently, if you move files into an existing directory or move a whole directory into the backup FileSet after a full backup, those files may not be backed up by an incremental save because they may have old dates. You must explicitly update the date/time stamp on all moved files. Bacula versions starting with 3.0 or later support Accurate backup, which is an option that addresses this issue without requiring modification of the files timestamps. This feature should always be used if an accurate state of the filesystem is important. Which criteria should be applied is configurable, i.e. inode comparisons, modification times or md5/sha1 signatures.[8]
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Not to be confused with Bakula disambiguation This article is about computer backup software For the penile bone found in some mammals see baculum For the genus of sea snail see Bacula gastropod This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Bacula news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Bacula is an open source enterprise level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks It is designed to automate backup tasks that had often required intervention from a systems administrator or computer operator BaculaDeveloper s Kern Sibbald and teamInitial releaseJanuary 2000 24 years ago 2000 01 Stable release13 0 2 1 20 February 2023 13 months ago 20 February 2023 Written inC C Operating systemCross platformTypeBackupLicenseGNU Affero General Public License v3 0Websitewww wbr bacula wbr org Bacula supports Linux UNIX Windows and macOS backup clients and a range of professional backup devices including tape libraries Administrators and operators can configure the system via a command line GUI or web interface its back end is a catalog of information stored by MySQL PostgreSQL or SQLite Contents 1 Overview 2 Features 2 1 Network options 2 2 Client OS 3 Considerations 4 History 5 Forks of Bacula 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksOverview editBacula is a set of computer programs for managing backup recovery and verification of computer data across a network providing a backup solution for mixed operating system environments Bacula is open source and released under the AGPL version 3 license with exceptions to permit linking with OpenSSL and distributing Windows binaries 2 Bacula is available under a dual license see Multi licensing AGPLv3 or Proprietary license Several entities offer commercial support for the AGPL Bacula community version while Bacula Systems 3 sells various levels of annual support contracts for Bacula Enterprise Edition which contains various non GPL components developed in house In common with other dual license software components developed for the Bacula Enterprise Edition are released into Bacula Community edition after some period of exclusivity to the proprietary version Since April 2002 Bacula has over 2 million downloads which makes it the most downloaded open source backup program 4 Features editBacula s features include Network options edit TCP IP client server communication uses standard ports and services instead of RPC for NFS SMB etc this eases firewall administration and network security CRAM MD5 configurable client server authentication GZIP LZO client side compression to reduce network bandwidth consumption this runs separate from hardware compression done by the backup device TLS network communication encryption 5 MD5 SHA verify file integrity CRC verify data block integrity PKI backup data encryption NDMP enterprise version plugin 6 cloud backup with some S3 file storage servicesClient OS edit The client software executed by a file daemon running on a Bacula client supports multiple operating systems 7 Considerations editBy default Bacula s differential and incremental backups are based on system time stamps Consequently if you move files into an existing directory or move a whole directory into the backup FileSet after a full backup those files may not be backed up by an incremental save because they may have old dates You must explicitly update the date time stamp on all moved files Bacula versions starting with 3 0 or later support Accurate backup which is an option that addresses this issue without requiring modification of the files timestamps This feature should always be used if an accurate state of the filesystem is important Which criteria should be applied is configurable i e inode comparisons modification times or md5 sha1 signatures 8 History editDate EventJanuary 2000 Project startedApril 14 2002 First release to SourceForge net version 1 16 June 29 2006 Release 1 38 11 Final version 1 release January 2007 Release 2 0 0September 2007 Release 2 2 3June 2008 Release 2 4 0April 2009 Release 3 0 0 with new features 9 January 2010 Release 5 0 0 with new features 10 September 2010 Release 5 0 3January 2012 Release 5 2 4 with new features 11 February 2012 Release 5 2 6June 2012 Release 5 2 9February 2013 Release 5 2 13July 2014 Release 7 0 5 with many new features 12 August 2015 Release 7 2 0 with many new features 13 July 2017 Release 9 0 0 with many new features 14 December 2018 Release 9 2 0 with many new features 15 January 2020 Release 9 4 0 with many new features 16 March 2021 Release 11 0 0 with many new features 17 18 August 2022 Release 13 0 1 with many new features 19 20 Forks of Bacula editIn 2011 Graham Keeling a former Bacula community developer released a friendly fork of Bacula 21 In February 2013 a former Bacula community developer with several other Free Software users released Bareos as a fork of Bacula 22 See also editAmanda Proxmox Backup Server BareosReferences edit Bacula Release 13 0 2 Bacula Copyright Trademark and Licenses Bacula org Bacula Systems S A Bacula Bacula TLS Communications Encryption Bacula Enterprise Plugins Supported Operating Systems Bacula org New Features in 3 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 3 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 5 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 5 2 0 Bacula org New Features in 7 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 7 2 0 Bacula org New Features in 9 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 9 2 0 Bacula org New Features in 9 4 0 Bacula org New Features in 11 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 11 0 1 Cloud7 News 6 February 2021 New Features in 13 0 0 Bacula org New Features in 13 0 1 Bacula org 5 August 2022 Burp Bareos External links edit nbsp Free and open source software portalOfficial website nbsp Bacula Systems home page Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bacula amp oldid 1211877497, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
