Bacula: A management system free backup applied in an organization

Julival Santos Reis Júnior

Unijorge - Jorge Amado University

CEP: 41770-235 - Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

julicravo@gmail.com

Abstract. This article presents the case study on implemetation of the the backup system in an organization. The companies, in a way Generally not have an efficient system backup and use scripts adapted Causing rework. The continuity of this process requires the continuous detailed documentation about the inner workings and script execution. Analyzing this scenario and the high prices of proprietary tools, the article demonstrates the economic and technical feasibility of the management system computer backup totally free, with results similar to proprietary tools.

Summary. This article presents a case study on the deployment of a backup system in an organization. Companies, in a manner generally do not have an efficient backup and using scripts tailored causing rework. The continuity of this process requires a continuous detailed documentation on the inner workings and script execution. Analyzing this scenario and the high prices of proprietary tools, the article demonstrates the economic and technical feasibility of a management system backup computer totally free, with results similar to proprietary tools.

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The Raidbr promoted last week from 30 to 31 October, the course "Bacula Backup" - a tool that allows administration backup, restore and verification of the data in computers.

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Between 18 and 20 August, will be happening at the School of Finance Administration Brasilia (ESAF), The Third International Congress of Free Software and Electronic Government.

The community "Bacula" will be represented by a lecture: "Backup" in the Cloud "Bacula", to be held by the author of "blog".

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Heitor Faria

Collaboration: Alexandro Silva

Publication Date: March 29, 2010

According to the standard ISO / IEC 17799:2005 :

12.1.3 Safeguarding of organizational records
It is recommended that important records of an organization are protected from loss, destruction and falsification. Some records may need to be securely retained to meet statutory requirements or regulations, as well as to support essential business activities ...

To meet this standard control becomes essential to implement a backup system. There are several points to make systems is the task of several I can name a few stars in the world owner:

• ArcServe
• BackupExec

But I can highlight in the wide range of free tools to Bacula . It goes hand in hand with the aforementioned software without owing anything (see Current State ). The few "limitations" are found:

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If you have multiple tape drives in the same server manuals and wants "Bacula" go alternating between volumes inserted in them (like a robot tape), can be achieved through the following script authored by "Mario Wolff '( slightly modified, the original is: file examples / autochangers / multiple-drive-changer.txt). The changes seem to have been made to change between versions 1.x and 2.x Bacula 2.x).

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Rather than the more popular "dump", the method below is a better way of doing backup of Postgresql, mainly because it is an online backup (ie, not for the bank). Very useful for large databases.

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Yes, I know that Netware is obsolete. However, it is a legacy that many companies still have.

As a starting point, I separated two sites that can help in this task:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Category:NetWare_Developer_Suite_for_C

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/NLM-HOWTO.html

Any takers to help?

Hugs!

Galera,

I created a group to talk about Bacula in Portuguese: http://groups.google.com/group/bacula-backup-pt-br

This group is Google. The previously created, Yahoo will be deleted.

Hugs!