Bacula is a open source backup utility that allows you to create and restore a backup with network support. The only things you need is a well working and configured lamp server and a valid database connection to your bacula catalog. Bacula server installation and configuration on centos. So, move to your home directory, and download the latest version of bacula. How install bacula backup server and client on centos osradar. But if the operating system is centos or redhat, the installation is no longer so easy, if you want to use bat bacula administration tool. This example shows to install it on another client that. The examples given in this manual are for bacula community binaries 9. Ive been searching for months now on how to install bacula 7 on centos 7 and everyone told me i had to install bacual 5x then do an upgrade to bacula 7. Ntp server 01 configure ntp server ntpd 02 configure. However when it told me to use yum install git npm it gave me the message above.
How to install bacula server on centos 7 digitalocean. Bacula is a free tool that allows the admin to manage backup, recovery and send the verification of data from any systems in any location across the network. This chapter presents the bacula web based interface that has been added to the bacula project for version 7. Download install 01 download centos 8 02 install centos 8. The procedure to setup backup server using bacula and webmin is explained in this article. Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos 6. There are bacula clients for linux, windows, and mac making it a crossplatform network wide solution. How install bacula backup server and client on centos.
Write the name that you later will give to the bacula director i choose kvitdir. Open source backup, enterprise ready, network backup tool. Bacula is an open source network backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the server components of bacula on a centos 7 server. See the install file in that package for more details. How to install and configure bacula server on centos 7. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. On your windows server, double click the downloaded installation file to start the bacula file daemon installer.
For each volume, bacula maintains a fair amount of catalog information such as the. These binaries, though a bit old, do work with the current 9. In this tutorial, i am using password as centos wherever i need to setup password. Download the exe, rpm or deb packages from your distribution, provided by bacula usa. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. Access the url and download the latest bacula xxx source. If you installed desktop environment, its possible to operate bacula with gui based tool. But issue is ive not found any option for schedule backup of new client means how i add new backup client. Bacula web gui graphical user interface is mostly written in php and is compatible with your prefered os such as red hat, centos, fedora, debian. According to source forge statistics rank and downloads, bacula is by far the most popular open source backup software tool for full system backup. Home backup and restore configure bacula configure bacula fd configure bacula sd configure webmin for bacula create job and fileset in bacula installation of bacula what is bacula bacula server installation and configuration on centos.
The assumption for this centos 6 tutorial is that you are running as root and have a basic understanding of the software required but if you follow this tutorial you should be able to complete the task successfully. Install centos 01 download centos 7 02 install centos 7. How to install and configure bacula backup server on centos. We will configure bacula to use the private fqdn of our servers, e. Hello, does anobody know how to upgrade bacula from v. Before bacula will read or write a volume, the physical volume must have a bacula software label so that. Baculum bacula gui is the official web graphic interface of the bacula project bacula. Im using bacula as my backup solution on a centos 8 server. It has 2,5 million downloads and thousands of contributors worldwide. Install baculaweb from archive baculaweb documentation. Install apache web server on rpm based linux distribution like red hat, centos, fedora, suse linux, scientific linux, etc. To do this, go find the latest release for centos 7 and right click on it to copy the link.
If you are trying to install centos 8 and your hardware is not recognised, this may help. Start bacula services they will not stay started unless you edit the bacula nf file and put a path that exists in as the archive device. Please note that we have a new 4096 bit signing key that we have put into place. Bacula is a set of open source, computer programs that permit you or the system administrator to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Ive seen quite a few examples of how to setup bacula on centos7 and they all stink. Mostly, theyre just rewarmed procedures from centos. The installation will be made and setup with a postgresql. Bacula is an opensource network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. Baculum 9 graphical bacula configuration, administration. If you are using any of these distributions, software installation should work just fine. Download backup software bacula enterprise edition, and install on either vmware or virtual box vms. Id strongly suggest to verify the integrity of the compressed archive you downloaded before proceeding to the installation. So i went on a mission to figure out how to do a fresh install of centos 7 and install bacula 7 with havi. You will be surprised at the way the ease of use of the bacula web tool. Now that i have webmin installed and running, its time to install bacula. First let us install bacual and mysql server using command. Its possible to install bacula operation tool on windows. Comments off on installing webmin, bacula 7 and bacula web on centos 7 kind of overkill to have bacula installed at my home but if youve read some of the other things ive got going on which i will post when i get a chance, you will see that everything i do is a little overkill.
How to install and configure bacula data backup spiceworks. The first thing that you need to do is install epel. If it is not available on your system, you can download the depkgsqt package from the bacula source forge download area and build it. How to really setup bacula director on centos 7 things i wish id. This video covers the full process of installing bacula and webmin on centos 7 and shows how to set everything up to get all daemons up and running. Version 9 contains a configuration module that allows the backup administrator to change bacula backup settings without editing text files. This package contains the bacula client, the daemon running on the system to be backed up. Installing bacula on centos 6 with webmin interface quick start guide. Download bacula package same for server and clients.
Based on source forge downloads, bacula is the most popular open source backup program. We will configure bacula to perform a weekly job that creates a local backup i. In this howto i am using mysql for database, you can use either postgresql or mysql. After the installation and configuration of php and nginx, now we will start the installation of our bacula web. It is very flexible and robust, which makes it, while slightly cumbersome to configure, suitable for backups in many situations.
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