Architecture

Bacula Enterprise BGuardian Plugin is a Bacula Director plugin which may be run manually, or automatically on a periodic schedule via a Bacula Admin Job.

This tool is packed as a configurable daemon built on top of the Java language. The daemon can automatically communicate with Bacula through the following channels:

• bconsole

• bdirjson tool

• Direct connection to the SQL catalog

Once the different services are performed, BGuardian writes user-friendly HTML reports into the local filesystem, JSON reports that can be processed by any other tool, as well as other internal files which provide a persistent alert framework with information that is kept through subsequent daemon executions and that is available also for other layers of Bacula.

Below is a simplified vision of the BGuardian architecture within a generic Bacula Enterprise deployment:

BGuardian Plugin Architecture

See also

• BGuardian Scope

• BGuardian Features

• BGuardian Installation

• BGuardian Configuration

• BGuardian Operations

• BGuardian Best Practices

• BGuardian Limitations

• BGuardian Troubleshooting

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