Linux: Installation on Debian and Ubuntu based distributions

Welcome to the guide for installing Bacula Enterprise Storage Daemon on Debian and Ubuntu based systems. This documentation ensures you have the necessary steps to setup a client and establish connectivity between Director and Storage Daemon.

Prerequisites

Be sure to follow steps 1-3 of the general installation page.

Steps

  1. Install Storage Daemon packages:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bacula-enterprise-postgresql

  2. Start and enable the daemon:

    sudo systemctl start bacula-sd
sudo systemctl enable bacula-sd

  3. Disable Director and File Daemon services:

    sudo systemctl disable bacula-dir
sudo systemctl disable bacula-fd

  4. Add a Storage resource in the Director host:

    Storage {
    Name = @@sd-name@@
    Address = @@sd-address@@
    SDPort = 9103
    Password = @@sd-password@@
    ...
}

    Be sure to replace @@sd-name@@ and @@sd-address@@ with the values found in /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf under Storage resource. The password @@sd-password@@ has to match the one in the next step.

  5. Add a Director resource in /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf:

    Director {
    Name = @@dir-name@@
    Password = @@sd-password@@
}

    Be sure to replace @@dir-name@@ with the Director name found in the Director resource, and @@sd-password@@ with the one in the Storage resource.

  6. Check your Storage configuration:

    sudo -u bacula /opt/bacula/bin/bacula-sd -t

Conclusion

Congratulations! You’ve successfully configured Storage Daemon on your system.

See also

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