Best Practices

As a particularly reliable, scalable and powerful backup and recovery solution, Bacula Enterprise offers great flexibility and often, a variety of ways for the user to implement Backup and Restore strategies, policies and regulatory requirements to the very highest standards. Best Practice implementation is always highly recommended by Bacula Systems, and Bacula Enterprise’s tools, features and architecture are designed to facilitate that goal. This document draws from feedback from our many customers as well as from our developers to guide you in Best Practices covering a large range of Bacula’s capabilities to help you exploit your Bacula Enterprise infrastructure to its maximum potential.

Bacula Systems remains at your service if you need any help or validation of your implementation.

Tip

If you need clarification on any concepts within this document, we recommend that you read the following documents in Bacula Enterprise documentation:

• Bacula Enterprise Fundamentals

• Bacula Enterprise Installation

Read the following articles:

• Actions to Avoid
• Security Considerations
• Concurrent Jobs
• Software Compression
• Testing and Monitoring
• Reporting Issues
• Items to Implement Before Production

See also

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