Installation

This article describes how to install Bacula Enterprise BGuardian Plugin.

Prerequisites

• The BGuardian Plugin need to be installed on the host where the Bacula Director is installed.

• The plugin works through a Java daemon, therefore Java needs to be installed onto the host through a JRE or JDK package (openjdk-11-jre for example).

• The Java environment needs to be in version 11 or above and the Java binary must be available in the system PATH.

Installation Methods

• BGuardian Plugin - Installation with BIM (recommended)

• BGuardian Plugin - Installation with Package Managers

Result

The package installs the following elements:

• Jar libraries in /opt/bacula/lib (such as bacula-bguardian-dir-plugin-x.x.x.jar). Note that the version of the jar archive is not aligned with the version of the package. However, that version can be shown in the json reports.

• The bguardian shell script file in /opt/bacula/bin which invokes the jar files. The bguardian script searches for the most recent bacula-bguardian-dir-plugin-x.x.x.jar file in order to launch it, even though usually there should only be one file.

See also

• BGuardian Scope

• BGuardian Features

• BGuardian Architecture

• BGuardian Configuration

• BGuardian Operations

• BGuardian Best Practices

• BGuardian Limitations

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