bacula-dir (8) Linux Manual Page

bacula-dir – Bacula Director

Synopsis

bacula-dir [options]

Description

This manual page documents briefly the bacula-dir command.
Bacula’s Director Daemon acts as the controller of the network backup system: it is responsible for scheduling and coordinating backups across the network.

Options

-c file

Specify the configuration file to use.

-d nn

Set debug level to nn.

-dt

Print timestamp in debug output.

-f

Run in foreground (for debugging).

-g group

Set the group/gid to run as.

-m

Print kaboom output (for debugging)

-r job

Run <job>.

-s

No signals (for debugging).

-t

Test the configuration file and report errors.

-u user

Set the username/uid to run as.

-v

Set verbose mode.

-?

Show version and usage of program.

Tcp-Wrappers Configuration

Tcpwrappers looks for the service name of the bacula daemons in hosts.allow , and the service names of these daemons is configured to be different from the binary. The service names are configured to be %hostname%-%component% rather than bacula-dir (As defined in the bacula-dir.conf.in file)

So the hosts.allow entry has to match %hostname%-%component% (servername-dir for example) instead of bacula-%component%

WARNING: This means that if the hosts.allow file has the entry:

bacula-dir: ALL

you will not be able to run bconsole to connect to the local director!

The entry would have to read:

server-dir: ALL

and this will allow the console to connect to the director. (The process running is bacula-dir.)

See Also

bacula-fd(8), bacula-sd(8).

Author

This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon [at] adv-solutions.net>.