Tool of the Day: Bacula
Bacula is a network client and server based backup software designed
for system administrator who want to manage recovery, backup and
verification of computer data across a network. While being very efficient
and easy to use, Bacula comes with lots of advanced storage management
features. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering
many
advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and
recover lost or damaged files.its back-end is a catalog of information
stored by
MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
features:
- TCP/IP - client?server communication uses standard ports and services
instead of RPC for NFS, CIFS, etc. this eases firewall administration
and network security
- CRAM-MD5 - configurable client?server authentication
- GZIP/LZO - client-side compression to reduce network bandwidth
consumption;
this runs separate from hardware compression done by the backup device
- TLS - network communication encryption
- MD5/SHA - verify file integrity
- CRC - verify data block integrity
- PKI - backup data encryption
- POSIX ACL - needed to restore Windows NT ACE's and Samba servers
- Unicode/UTF-8 - cross-platform filenames
- VSS - calls Microsoft's snapshot service
- LVM - pre-script setup for Linux/UNIX snapshot
- LFS - backup files larger than 2GiB
- raw - backup devices without a filesystem
- pooling - allocates backup volumes according to job needs and
retention configuration
- spooling - writes backup data to spool until target backup medium is
allocated so jobs can continue uninterrupted
- media-spanning - such as spanning tapes
- multi-streaming - write multiple, simultaneous data streams to the
same medium
- ANSI & EBCDIC - IBM compatibility
- Barcodes - reading tape barcodes in libraries
- autoloaders - virtually every tape autoloader available (called
autochangers in Bacula)
- most tape drives, including DDS, DLT, SDLT, LTO-1-5
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Home page: http://www.bacula.org/en/
screenshots: http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=screenshot
for binary package and other information:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/#files and
http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=bacula
regards,
dhanasekar
