_ _ | |__ __ _ ___ _ _| | __ _ | '_ \ / _` |/ __| | | | |/ _` | | |_) | (_| | (__| |_| | | (_| | |_.__/ \__,_|\___|\__,_|_|\__,_| ** Bacula 5.2.x backported packages Use this if you're running a stable version of Redhat Enterprise Linux / CentOS or Fedora and you want the latest Bacula for running backups without the need to recompile packages on your own. ======== Features - Standard components: director, storage, client, docs, bconsole. - Graphical components: bat, bacula-tray-monitor (where supported). - Tab completion for bconsole. - Nagios plugin. - HTML/PDF docs. - Quick start guides. - File Daemon bpipe-fd plugin. - POSIX.1e capabilities for File Daemon. - Systemd for Fedora and RHEL 7+. - SysV init scripts for RHEL 5/6. - GZIP/LZO compression. - Static uid/gid of 133 (see "setup" package). - No usermode / fedora-usermgmt stuff in the console packages. - Docs no longer an arch specific subpackage. - SQL libraries needed only by Director and Storage daemons. - SQL backend management through the alternatives system. - Always use system QT libraries. - Removal of SHA1 non-free code (uses OpenSSL). - Optional LogWatch scripts. - Supported distributions: RHEL/CentOS 5 x86_64 - i386 - ppc RHEL/CentOS 6 x86_64 - i686 - ppc64 RHEL/CentOS 7 x86_64 - ppc64 ======== Repository installation - RHEL 5 needs the EPEL repository (LZO dependency) and does not have graphical programs (QT4 too old). To install the repository, run as root the following commands. For RHEL/Centos: wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/epel-bacula.repo \ -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-bacula.repo ======== Notes Please see the included documentation after installing: /usr/share/doc/bacula-common-%{version}/README.Redhat ======== Quick start Please look at the following files for a quick start with the various database backends: quickstart_mysql.txt quickstart_postgresql.txt quickstart_sqlite3.txt To deal with the switching process for the database backend, see the following file which explains how to make the necessary changes: database_backends.txt