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Administration Tools for Bacula Enterprise

An administration tool for each Administrator

ADMIN TOOLS

Bacula Systems oers multiple choices to congure, deploy, manage, report and analyze your Bacula Enterprise Edition infrastructure. If you are an expert in Systems Administration and prefer working with command lines, BConsole is the right admin tool for you, completely integrated into a Gnu/Linux & Unix environment. BAT is a graphical admin tool, specically dedicated to help you manage your Enterprise Edition backup and restore jobs. Thanks to its graphical capacities, it can be easily used by your Operations Team. Both BConsole and BAT are included in your Bacula Enterprise subscription. Finally, BWeb Management Suite is the most powerful and complete admin tool that Bacula Systems oers. Indeed, within a Web based graphical environment it allows you to congure and deploy your Bacula Enterprise Edition infrastructure in one click! And, thanks to its wizards as well as its online documentation, the whole process could not be easier. BWeb Management Suite also brings management, reporting and analysis capacities at the highest level, allowing both Systems Administrators and Operations Teams to easily control and constantly improve the Bacula Enterprise Edition installation. BWeb Management Suite is included free of charge with the purchase of a training session at Bacula Systems. So, when deciding on the right admin tool to manage your Bacula Enterprise Edition infrastructure, the choice is simple and inexpensive!

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Key Benets
All-in-one solution to manage your Bacula Enterprise Edition infrastructure Conguration set up and management Enhanced reporting capabilities Multi-director management (future version) Included with all purchased training sessions for existing or new subscriptionsa Management and reporting Web based Graphical interface Quickly highlights problems Password, LDAP, ADS authentication Conguration Wizards to create new jobs, clients, storage and new backup policies Modern and intuitive GUI to edit resources (ability to search, rename, check dependencies) Online documentation linked through the Conguration interface Diagnostic tools
a Training invoiced at time of order and must be taken within 6 months.

The easiest way to get your Bacula Enterprise Edition up and running, to manage it and to maintain it Powerful! BWeb Management Suite is a web application that allows simple and rapid monitoring and administration of Bacula Jobs in a single Director, multi-client production environment. In Bacula Enterprise version 6.2, the BWeb Management Suite integrates a Bacula Enterprise conguration GUI module which is designed to help you congure the Bacula Enterprise conguration les including bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf, bacula-fd.conf and bconsole.conf. Ease of use is the main benet that BWeb Management Suite brings to the Administrator and Operations teams. BWeb Management Suite oers a number of wizards which support the Administrator in his daily work. The wizards provide a step by step set of required actions that graphically guide the Administrator to perform quick and easy creation and modication of conguration les.
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BWeb Management Suite

BWeb Management Suite allows checking running jobs and facilitates the creation of new jobs! BWeb Management Suite provides diagnostic tools enabling the Administrator to check that the database is well congured and BWeb Management Suite is installed properly.

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New Conguration GUI includes wizards to create new Jobs, Clients, Storages as well as new Backup polices. This modern and intuitive GUI allows resources editing with search, rename, and check dependencies features. The interface is easily customizable and allows Administrators to dene default values for all resources. A simple color legend identies clearly if a directive comes from the current object, a user defaults choice or from a JofDefs resource. New Online Help mode displays automatic help text suggestions when the user searches data types. BWeb Management Suite oers a variety of Wizards which support the Administrator when he or she needs to create new jobs; providing a chronological set of required actions that guide the Administrator to perform the jobs in no time! BWeb Management Suite package is available for: RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 Debian 6.0 Ubuntu LTS and is compatible with:
New conguration tool

Bacula Enterprise version 6.2 and highera PostgreSQL and MySQL catalogs

Conguration screenshots

a For Bacula Enterprise 6.0.x and 4.0.x you will need to upgrade to BWeb Management Suite and congure the new BWeb conguration items

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Key Benets
Graphical user interface Available for Windows and Linux systems Undockable windows Powerful graphical restore with tree browsing Media management

Bacula Administration Tool

BAT is a feature-rich GUI tool which enables all Bacula Enterprise users to eectively manage Bacula Enterprise Edition. BAT is installed at your convenience on Windows or Linux platforms and oers graphical console commands as well as a powerful restore interface. The GUI features include useful and nice graphics: Undockable windows of all interfaces

Multiple directors A page selector for searching and displaying interfaces A console command window for entering standard text console commands And a Preferences interface for listing limits and debugging In many of the graphical display panes, the administrator can right-click to bring up a context sensitive menu that provides several features and options choices. BAT also has a comprehensive online help manual explaining the interface and some advanced features including: Media management: Modify Volume parameters Label a new volume Select jobs on a volume in Job List directly from media interface, and much more! High performance restore of backed up data with GUI tree browsing of les and directories, selection as well as pre-restore interfaces to assist in selecting jobs for this restore method
Media and restore management

BAT management features

Listing Interfaces with: Processed backup jobs that have run Clients (perform 4 commands on the client within context) Filesets or the job resources (perform 8 commands on the job within context) Pools and volumes in each pool

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Key Benets
Menu driven interface Highly intuitive TTY version of Bacula Enterprise Console Easy over the network access (SSH and so on) Multiple directors Useful when scripting Bacula Enterprise

BConsole
Lightweight communication tool BConsole is the TTY version of the Bacula Enterprise console. Highly intuitive, menu driven, it permits the Administrator, or authorized users, to interact with Bacula Enterprise, determine the status of a particular job, examine the contents of the Catalog as well as perform certain tape handlings with the BConsole program. BConsole runs on every major operating systems like Gnu Linux / Unix, Windows and Solaris. In a certain way, BConsole is like a Command Line Interface (CLI) for Bacula Enterprise. BConsole is secured The BConsole conguration le describes which user is able to interact with which Director. The Administrator can give rights to a specic user or group to restore a specic client or run a specic job. All rights are managed through ACL like directives into the bconsole.conf le. Scripting Bacula from outside With BConsole, the Administrator is able to run all Console Commands. Those are very useful when one wants to use them on Run Scripts directives or through Cron Jobs for example.
*list volumes pool=www-pool +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 134 | www-0001 | Append | 1 | 2,766,556,763 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-21 10:48:54 | | 135 | www-0002 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,030 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2012-12-29 09:36:23 | | 136 | www-0003 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,899,120 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2012-12-29 12:33:07 | | 137 | www-0004 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,907,236 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 05:45:02 | | 138 | www-0005 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,412 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 08:24:11 | | 139 | www-0006 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,900,252 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 10:16:00 | | 140 | www-0007 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,280 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-05 07:41:36 | | 142 | www-0009 | Purged | 1 | 8,589,901,869 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-11 04:45:15 | | 143 | www-0010 | Full | 1 | 8,589,901,533 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 05:03:51 | | 144 | www-0011 | Full | 1 | 8,589,900,533 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 06:07:17 | | 145 | www-0012 | Full | 1 | 8,589,931,147 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 04:35:22 | | 146 | www-0013 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | File | | | 147 | www-0014 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | | | 148 | www-0015 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | | *restore | 149 | www-0016 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | File | | | 150 | www-0017 | Used | 1 | 192 | 0 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | | First you select one or more JobIds that contain files | 151 | www-0018 | Full | 1 | 8,589,906,905 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 05:02:16 | to be restored. You will | 152 | www-0020 | Full | 1 | 8,589,901,399 | 1 | be presented 864,000 | several 1 | methods 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 06:03:48 | | 153 | www-0019 | Full | 1 | 8,589,900,999 | the JobIds. 1 | 864,000 | | 0 to | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 06:50:41 | of specifying Then you will be 1 allowed | 154 | www-0021 | Full | 1 | 8,589,898,996 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-19 07:41:23 | select which files from those JobIds are to be restored. | 155 | www-0022 | Full | 1 | 8,589,899,538 | 1 | 864,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2013-01-12 06:50:11 | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

To select the JobIds, you have the following choices: 1: List last 20 Jobs run 2: List Jobs where a given File is saved 3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select 4: Enter SQL list command 5: Select the most recent backup for a client 6: Select backup for a client before a specified time 7: Enter a list of files to restore 8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time 9: Find the JobIds of the most recent backup for a client 10: Find the JobIds for a backup for a client before a specified time 11: Enter a list of directories to restore for found JobIds 12: Select full restore to a specified Job date 13: Cancel Select item: (1-13):

BConsole lets the Administrator: Manage his backups and restores manually (run, stop, start, . . . ) Manage Media (label volume, update autochangers slots) Show internal Bacula Enterprise information (SQL requests) Interact with the Bacula Enterprise through Console Commands

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