Installation

This article describes how to install Bacula Enterprise Proxmox Plugin.

The Bacula File Daemon and its Proxmox Plugin need to be installed on the host of the Proxmox hypervisor which runs the guest VMs that are to be backed up. Proxmox uses a customized Debian distribution, so the Bacula Enterprise File Daemon for that platform has to be used.

Installation of the Bacula Enterprise Proxmox Plugin is most easily done by adding the repository file suitable for the existing subscription and the Debian version (the distributions package manager configuration) that Proxmox is built upon.

Prerequisites

The Plugin Directory directive of the File Daemon resource in /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-fd.conf must point to where the proxmox-fd.so plugin file is installed. The standard Bacula plugin directory is /opt/bacula/plugins.

FileDaemon {
  Name = bacula-fd
  Plugin Directory = /opt/bacula/plugins
...
}

Steps

Installation example:

Insert the following content to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bacula.list:

#Bacula Enterprise
deb https://www.baculasystems.com/dl/@customer-string@/debs/bin/@version@/stretch-64/ stretch main
deb https://www.baculasystems.com/dl/@customer-string@/debs/proxmox/@version@/stretch-64/ stretch proxmox

Run apt-get update.

apt-get update

Then, to install the Plugin, run: apt-get install bacula-enterprise-proxmox-plugin

apt-get install bacula-enterprise-proxmox-plugin

Manual installation of the packages can be done after downloading the right files from the Bacula Systems provided download area, and then using the package manager to install.