Requirements

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An up-to-date Operating System.
We recommend that you have the basic knowledge of PostgreSQL administration.
If you have previously installed Bacula either from a distribution site such as Ubuntu or CentOS, or if you have built Bacula and installed it from source, you will most likely need to save your installation, in particular your bacula Director, Client, Storage daemon, and bconsole configuration files (e.g. bacula-dir.conf). Then you must uninstall the old Bacula binaries. If you do not do this, you may end up with conflicting binaries or libraries.
These installation procedures install all the Bacula binary and source files (with the exception of certain system startup scripts) in the directory /opt/bacula. The directory structure of the installation is the standard recommended directory structure documented in the manual. The main directories are /opt/bacula/bin (binaries), /opt/bacula/etc (configuration files), /opt/bacula/lib (shared object libraries), /opt/bacula/plugins (plugins such a bpipe), /opt/bacula/scripts (helper scripts such as mtx-changer) and /opt/bacula/working (Bacula daemon temporary files).