2 2. Baculum operating system environment
3 2.1 General requirements
6 3. Preparing Baculum files
7 4. Preparing Apache Web Server
8 5. Example configuration VirtualHost
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14 Baculum is Bacula web based interface. It enables Bacula administration
17 - Running backup and restore tasks
18 - Monitoring Bacula services by getting status these services
19 - Bacula console available via web interface
20 - Support for customized and restricted consoles (Console ACL functionality)
21 - Multiple Directors support
22 - Volumes managenment including labeling new volumes
23 - Basic storage daemon operations on volumes (mount, umount, release actions)
24 - Easy in use configuration and restore wizards
28 2. Baculum operating system environment
31 2.1 General requirements
34 Environmnent for Baculum installation should have next components:
36 - Web Server - with mod_rewrite module loaded. Baculum has been
37 tested on Apache HTTP Server.
39 - PHP 5.3 or higher - as web server module. PHP CLI interpreter is not needed.
40 PHP should have installed next modules:
41 * PDO PHP support - depending on your catalog database: PDO PostgreSQL,
42 PDO MySQL or PDO SQLite.
43 Note, in case using MySQL database required is using MySQL native driver.
44 It is php-mysqlnd for PHP, not php-mysql.
47 * MB String PHP module.
49 - Bconsole - configured Bacula text based console
50 - Access to Bacula catalog database - computer with Baculum installation should be
51 able to connection to Bacula catalog database. There is not need to install Baculum
52 on server with Bacula DB because Baculum can communicate with Bacula database
53 located on remote server.
55 Above requirements are validated during Baculum start. So if in installation
56 environment there lacks some from these components then you will be informed
63 Packages required for run Baculum in Fedora environemnt can be installed by command:
74 In Fedora 20 PHP module for cURL support and for JSON support are compiled in PHP.
76 In case of using SELinux functionality in Baculum environment, recommended way
77 is switching "httpd_t" SELinux security doman to permissive domain like below:
79 # semanage permissive -a httpd_t
81 Please be sure that in PHP configuration file (usually located in /etc/php.ini)
82 there is option error_reporting set as below:
84 error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT
87 Suggested method for Baculum webGUI access to Bacula Console (bconsole) is using
88 "sudo" functionality for that. In this case there is need to add to /etc/sudoers file two
89 lines according next template:
91 Defaults:apache_user !requiretty
92 apache_user ALL= NOPASSWD: bconsole_path
94 For example for user called "apache" from that HTTP service working with Baculum
95 there is need to add line like below:
97 Defaults:apache !requiretty
98 apache ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/bconsole
104 Packages required for run Baculum in Debian environemnt can be installed by command:
106 apt-get install apache2 \
107 libapache2-mod-php5 \
114 In Debian 7.4.0, PHP modules for BCMath and MultiByte String support are compiled in PHP.
116 There is need to create symbolic link as below, for enable mod_rewrite module in Apache.
118 # ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load
120 Please be sure that in PHP configuration file (usually located in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)
121 there is option error_reporting set as below:
123 error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT
126 Suggested method for Baculum webGUI access to Bacula Console (bconsole) is using
127 "sudo" functionality for that. In this case there is need to add to /etc/sudoers below
128 line according next template:
130 apache_user ALL= NOPASSWD: bconsole_path
132 For example for user called "www-data" from that HTTP service working with Baculum
133 there is need to add line like below:
135 www-data ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/bconsole
138 3. Preparing Baculum files
141 After downloading and unpacking Baculum sources archive there is need to set write
142 permissions for web server for three below directories:
144 /[files base location]/assets
145 /[files base location]/protected/Data
146 /[files base location]/protected/runtime
148 These directories permissions are validated during Baculum start. If web server
149 will not be able to write data in some from above directries then you will be
150 informed about this fact.
153 4. Preparing Apache Web Server
156 First there is need to configure authentication to Baculum from web server side.
157 Baculum supports HTTP Basic authentication from web server.
159 In Apache web server this authentication method may be realizing by next directives
160 declaration in Apache configuration file:
163 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords
166 File located in /etc/apache2/passwords is an example file which contains users and
167 passwords. For generating passwords file you may use htpasswd binary file in next
170 # htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/passwords someuser
172 You will be asked about inputing password and retype password for user.
175 "-c" switcher you should use only for new created passwords file. For existing
176 passwords file "-c" switcher should not be inputed.
179 5. Example configuration VirtualHost
183 DocumentRoot /var/www/baculum
184 ServerName somehost.example.com
185 <Directory /var/www/baculum>
188 AuthName MyPrivateFile
189 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords
195 Above configuration should be writen in a new Apache configuration file.
196 for example, location for that can be put to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/baculum.conf.
198 In this way, configuration file baculum.conf will be loaded automaticly during