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Bacula Community Installation

Community

This guide explains how to install Bacula Community binaries on Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS/RedHat. The examples given in this manual are for Bacula Community binaries 13.0.1. The installation will be made and setup with a PostgreSQL database backend. These binaries have been graciously prepared for the community by Bacula Sys tems SA. Please note that Bacula Systems builds these binaries, but does not provide support for the Bacula Community version. However if there are problems installing the binaries, you can get help by using the Contacts form on the Bacula Systems Web site https://www.baculasystems.com/contactus. If you need support, please see https://www.bacula.org/support. If you find a bug in Bacula, please verify that it is a bug on the bacula.org email list then submit an issue report at https://gitlab.bacula.org.

By following this guide the software below will be installed:

Bacula Community binaries
PostgreSQL (Catalog)

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If you intend to use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL, please adapt the commands in this guide and replace “postgresql” with “mysql”.