Director Resource

The Director resource specifies the Name of the Director which is permitted to use the services of the Storage daemon. There may be multiple Director resources. The Director Name and Password must match the corresponding values in the Director’s configuration file.

Name

Name = <Director-Name> Specifies the Name of the Director allowed to connect to the Storage daemon. This directive is required.

Password

Password = <Director-password> Specifies the password that must be supplied by the above named Director. This directive is required.

Monitor

Monitor = <yes|no> If Monitor is set to no (default), this director will have full access to this Storage daemon. If Monitor is set to yes, this director will only be able to fetch the current status of this Storage daemon.

Note

If this director is being used by a Monitor, we highly recommend to set this directive to yes to avoid serious security problems.

Disable Query Command

DisableQueryCommand = <command-list> This is the list of query commands that the Storage daemon don’t accept from this director. The list may be any combination of the following commands: diskusage, filename, dircreate, diskperf, scsi_device.

Note

TLS Directives in the Director resource of bacula-dir.conf

Bacula has built-in network encryption code to provide secure network transport similar to that offered by stunnel or ssh. The Bacula TLS encryption applies only to information transmitted across a network, so the data written to Volumes by the Storage daemon is not encrypted by this code.

For more information how to enable TLS encryption, click here.

The following is an example of a valid Director resource definition:

Director {
    Name = bacula-dir
    Password = my_secret_password
}