\item [Service]
\index[fd]{Service }
- This is Windows terminology for a {\bf daemon} -- see above. It is
- frequently used in Unix environments as well.
-% TODO: maybe do not say this is "Windows" terminology because it is common
+ This is a program that remains permanently in memory awaiting
+ instructions. In Unix environments, services are also known as
+ {\bf daemons}.
\item [Storage Coordinates]
\index[fd]{Storage Coordinates }
to a Volume agrees with what is stored in the Catalog (i.e. it compares
the file attributes), *or it can check the Volume contents against the
original files on disk.
-% TODO: fix book for asterisk above and below
\item [*Archive]
\index[fd]{*Archive }
An Archive operation is done after a Save, and it consists of removing the
-Volumes on which data is saved from active use. These Volumes are marked as
-Archived, and may no longer be used to save files. All the files contained
-on an Archived Volume are removed from the Catalog. NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
-
-\item [*Update]
- \index[fd]{*Update }
- An Update operation causes the files on the remote system to be updated to be
-the same as the host system. This is equivalent to an {\bf rdist} capability.
-NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
+ Volumes on which data is saved from active use. These Volumes are marked as
+ Archived, and may no longer be used to save files. All the files contained
+ on an Archived Volume are removed from the Catalog. NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
\item [Retention Period]
\index[fd]{Retention Period }
in the Catalog database. This should not be confused with the time that
the data saved to a Volume is valid.
-% TODO: the following sentence is unclear to me
The File Retention Period determines the time that File records are kept
- in the catalog database. This period is important because the volume of
- the database File records by far use the most storage space in the
+ in the catalog database. This period is important for two reasons: the
+ first is that as long as File records remain in the database, you
+ can "browse" the database with a console program and restore any
+ individual file. Once the File records are removed or pruned from the
+ database, the individual files of a backup job can no longer be
+ "browsed". The second reason for carefully choosing the File Retention
+ Period is because the volume of
+ the database File records use the most storage space in the
database. As a consequence, you must ensure that regular "pruning" of
- the database file records is done. (See the Console {\bf retention}
+ the database file records is done to keep your database from growing
+ too large. (See the Console {\bf prune}
command for more details on this subject).
-% TODO: Where?
The Job Retention Period is the length of time that Job records will be
kept in the database. Note, all the File records are tied to the Job
In general, you will need the Bacula source release, and if you want to run
a Windows client, you will need the Bacula Windows binary release.
However, Bacula needs certain third party packages (such as {\bf MySQL},
-{\bf PostgreSQL}, or {\bf SQLite} to build properly depending on the
+{\bf PostgreSQL}, or {\bf SQLite} to build and run
+properly depending on the
options you specify. Normally, {\bf MySQL} and {\bf PostgreSQL} are
packages that can be installed on your distribution. However, if you do
not have them, to simplify your task, we have combined a number of these
\section{Source Release Files}
\index[general]{Source Files}
\index[general]{Release Files}
-Beginning with Bacula 1.38.0, the source code has been broken into
-four separate tar files each corresponding to a different module in
-the Bacula SVN. The released files are:
+ Beginning with Bacula 1.38.0, the source code has been broken into
+ four separate tar files each corresponding to a different module in
+ the Bacula SVN. The released files are:
\begin{description}
\item [bacula-2.0.3.tar.gz]
\section{Get Rid of the /lib/tls Directory}
\index[general]{Directory!Get Rid of the /lib/tls }
\index[general]{Get Rid of the /lib/tls Directory }
-
-% TODO: this seems dangerous -- how do you know if they don't use
-% TODO: /lib/tls for something mission critical? Reword this or point to
-% TODO: appropriate documentation.
-
-The new pthreads library {\bf /lib/tls} installed by default on recent Red Hat
-systems running Linux kernel 2.4.x is defective. You must remove it or rename it,
-then reboot your system before running Bacula otherwise after a week or so of
-running, Bacula will either block for long periods or deadlock entirely.
-You may want to use the loader environment variable override rather
-than removing /lib/tls. Please see \ilink{ Supported Operating
-Systems}{SupportedOSes} for more
-information on this problem.
+The new pthreads library {\bf /lib/tls} installed by default on recent Red
+Hat systems running Linux kernel 2.4.x is defective. You must remove it or
+rename it, then reboot your system before running Bacula otherwise after a
+week or so of running, Bacula will either block for long periods or
+deadlock entirely. You may want to use the loader environment variable
+override rather than removing /lib/tls. Please see \ilink{ Supported
+Operating Systems}{SupportedOSes} for more information on this problem.
This problem does not occur on systems running Linux 2.6.x kernels.
depkgs1} releases. However, most current Linux and FreeBSD systems
provide these as system packages.
\item The minimum versions for each of the databases supported by Bacula
-are:
+ are:
\begin{itemize}
\item MySQL 4.1
(sometimes called multiplexing).
\item Job sequencing using priorities.
\item \ilink{Console}{UADef} interface to the Director allowing complete
- control. A shell, GNOME GUI and wxWidgets GUI versions of the Console program
- are available. Note, the GNOME GUI program currently offers very few
- additional features over the shell program.
- With version 2.2.0, a much more complete GUI interface has been
- written, which is called the Bacula Admistration Tool, or bat.
+ control. A shell, Qt4 GUI, GNOME GUI and wxWidgets GUI versions of
+ the Console program are available. Note, the Qt4 GUI program called
+ the Bacula Administration tool or bat, offers many additional
+ features over the shell program.
\end{itemize}
\item Security
commercial application, probably because that application stores its catalog
information in a large number of individual files rather than an SQL database
as Bacula does.
-\item Aside from a GUI administrative interface, Bacula has a
+\item Aside from several GUI administrative interfaces, Bacula has a
comprehensive shell administrative interface, which allows the
administrator to use tools such as ssh to administrate any part of
Bacula from anywhere (even from home).
You must explicitly update the date/time stamp on all moved
files (we have a project to correct this).
\item File System Modules (configurable routines for
- saving/restoring special files) are not yet implemented.
+ saving/restoring special files) are not yet implemented. However,
+ this feature is easily implemented using RunScripts.
\item Bacula supports doing backups and restores to multiple
devices of different media type and multiple Storage daemons.
However, if you have backed up a job to multiple storage
\index[general]{Supported Operating Systems }
\begin{itemize}
-\item Linux systems (built and tested on SuSE 10.2).
-\item Most flavors of Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, ...).
+\item Linux systems (built and tested on CentOS 5).
+\item Most flavors of Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva,
+ Debian, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, ...).
\item Solaris various versions.
\item FreeBSD (tape driver supported in 1.30 -- for FreeBSD older than
version 5.0, please see some {\bf important} considerations in the
\ilink{ Tape Modes on FreeBSD}{FreeBSDTapes} section of the
Tape Testing chapter of this manual.)
-\item Windows (Win98/Me, WinNT/2K/XP) Client (File daemon) binaries.
-\item Windows Vista VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) is reported not to work
- with Bacula.
+\item Windows (Win98/Me, WinNT/2K/XP, Vista) Client (File daemon) binaries.
\item The Windows servers (Director and Storage daemon) are available
in the binary Client installer. The are reported to work in
many cases. However they are NOT supported.
\item Tru64
\item Bacula is said to work on other systems (AIX, BSDI, HPUX, NetBSD, ...) but we
do not have first hand knowledge of these systems.
-\item RHat 7.2 AS2, AS3, AS4, Fedora Core 2,3,4,5, SuSE SLES 7,8,9,10,10.1 and Debian Woody and Sarge Linux on
- S/390 and Linux on zSeries.
+\item RHat 7.2 AS2, AS3, AS4, RHEL5, Fedora Core 2,3,4,5,6,7 SuSE SLES
+ 7,8,9,10,10.1,10.2,10.3
+ and Debian Woody and Sarge Linux on
+ S/390 and Linux on zSeries.
\item See the Porting chapter of the Bacula Developer's Guide for information
on porting to other systems.
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