Baculum is Bacula web based interface. It enables Bacula administration
functions such as:
-- Running backup and restore tasks
+- Running Bacula jobs (backup, restore, verify...)
- Monitoring Bacula services by getting status these services
- Bacula console available via web interface
+- Support for customized and restricted consoles (Console ACL functionality)
- Multiple Directors support
- Volumes managenment including labeling new volumes
+- User friendly graphs
- Basic storage daemon operations on volumes (mount, umount, release actions)
- Easy in use configuration and restore wizards
- other features...
-Note!
-This Baculum release does not support Verify kind of jobs. Support for Verify
-jobs will be implemented in next Baculum release.
-
2. Baculum operating system environment
2.1 General requirements
-Environmnent for Baculum installation should have next components:
+Environment for Baculum installation should have following components:
- Web Server - with mod_rewrite module loaded. Baculum has been
-tested on Apache HTTP Server.
+tested on Apache HTTP Server and Lighttpd.
- PHP 5.3 or higher - as web server module. PHP CLI interpreter is not needed.
PHP should have installed next modules:
* PDO PHP support - depending on your catalog database: PDO PostgreSQL,
PDO MySQL or PDO SQLite.
+ Note, in case using MySQL database required is to use MySQL native driver.
+ It is php-mysqlnd for PHP, not php-mysql.
* BCMath PHP module.
* cURL PHP module.
* MB String PHP module.
+ * JSON PHP module.
- Bconsole - configured Bacula text based console
- Access to Bacula catalog database - computer with Baculum installation should be
-able to connection to Bacula catalog database. There is not need to install Baculum
-on server with Bacula DB because Baculum can communicate with Bacula database
+able to connect to Bacula catalog database. There is not need to install Baculum
+on server with Bacula Catalog DB because Baculum can communicate with Bacula database
located on remote server.
Above requirements are validated during Baculum start. So if in installation
-environment there lacks some from these components then you will be informed
+environment there lacks some from these components then you be informed
about it.
php-mbstring \
php-bcmath
-In Fedora 20 PHP module for cURL support is compiled in PHP.
+In Fedora 20 PHP module for cURL support and for JSON support are compiled in PHP.
In case of using SELinux functionality in Baculum environment, recommended way
is switching "httpd_t" SELinux security doman to permissive domain like below:
# semanage permissive -a httpd_t
+Please be sure that in PHP configuration file (usually located in /etc/php.ini)
+there is option error_reporting set as below:
+
+error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT
+memory_limit = 256M
+
Suggested method for Baculum webGUI access to Bacula Console (bconsole) is using
"sudo" functionality for that. In this case there is need to add to /etc/sudoers file two
lines according next template:
php5 \
php5-pgsql \
php5-mysql \
-php5-curl
+php5-curl \
+php5-json
In Debian 7.4.0, PHP modules for BCMath and MultiByte String support are compiled in PHP.
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load
+Please be sure that in PHP configuration file (usually located in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)
+there is option error_reporting set as below:
+
+error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_STRICT
+memory_limit = 256M
+
Suggested method for Baculum webGUI access to Bacula Console (bconsole) is using
"sudo" functionality for that. In this case there is need to add to /etc/sudoers below
line according next template:
/[files base location]/protected/runtime
These directories permissions are validated during Baculum start. If web server
-will not be able to write data in some from above directries then you will be
+will not be able to write data in some from above directries then you be
informed about this fact.
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