Fundamentals: Plugins

There are two kinds of plugins: one related to the Bacula Storage Daemon, and the other for the Bacula File Daemon. You can distinguish between them by their names:

• a storage daemon plugin is named xxxx-sd.so

• a file daemon plugin is named yyyy-fd.so

Be sure to install the plugin in the right place (on the File Daemon or the Storage Daemon), and read the related documentation and to set it up correctly before use.

Every plugin is dedicated to a specific set of technologies, usually to an enterprise-grade solution such as PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or VMware. By default, when working without special plugins, Bacula backs up files and nothing else. To learn more about plugins, look here.

Note

To see the list of available plugins, visit Bacula Enterprise Dedicated Backup Solutions.

See also

Go back to:

• Director

• Client (File Daemon)

• Storage Daemon

• Fundamentals: Catalog

• Console

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