Azure account management

Create a Microsoft Azure account

Please go to the following link and create an Microsoft Azure account. Trials are available.

Then follow the following link to login.

Configure your Azure Blob Storage

You have to do a few configuration steps to prepare your Azure portal for backup with Bacula Enterprise. The Bacula Systems Support Team can provide screenshots for the below steps upon request.

  1. Login to your Azure portal and create a new Storage account that you either assign to an existing resource group (or you can also create a new one on the fly).

  2. Give it a name; Must be lowercase letters and numbers only, and must be unique in all of Azure In the “Account kind” field select “Blob storage” For “Resource Group”, click “Use existing”, then choose the Resource Group from the drop-down Click on “Create” to save. This may take a minute to deploy.

  3. Select the new storage account in your Storage accounts overview page and navigate to Settings and then Access keys to retrieve the Secret Key that you will need to specify in your Bacula Storage Daemon configuration. The Storage account Name will be the Access Key in your Cloud resource in bacula-sd.conf.

  4. Now click on Blob service \(\rightarrow\) Containers to create a new container with public access level Blob (anonymous read access for blobs only). This will be the BucketName that we use in the Bacula Cloud resource.

  5. Confirm that the Settings in the Azure portal which were just created/edited match the Bacula Cloud resource config file.

  6. Stop the bacula-sd daemon: systemctl stop bacula-sd

  7. Test the SD config syntax: /opt/bacula/bin/bacula-sd -u bacula -t

  8. Start the bacula-sd daemon: systemctl start bacula-sd

  9. Run a backup job to the Azure storage.