Bacula on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

Bacula is a mature, enterprise grade open source suite for backing up, restoring and verifying data across a network of machines. It is built from cooperating daemons: a Director that schedules and coordinates every backup, verify and restore job; one or more Storage Daemons that write the backup data to disk, tape or a virtual autochanger; and File Daemons (clients) that run on each machine to be protected. A catalog database records every job, file, volume and client so restores can be browsed and performed precisely, and the whole system is driven from the bconsole management console. This appliance runs the Director, a Storage Daemon writing to a file based volume, a local File Daemon and the catalog together on one node, and backs itself up out of the box, so a working backup and restore workflow is available immediately and remote clients can be added by pointing their File Daemons at it.

It suits teams that need dependable, self hosted, policy driven backup and restore for servers and workstations, with a full audit trail in the catalog and no per agent licence cost.

Common uses

• Self hosted network backup and restore for servers and workstations
• Scheduled, policy driven backups with a full catalog audit trail
• A central backup Director for remote File Daemon clients