Fundamentals: Storage Daemon

The Bacula Storage service is a software program that performs the storage and recovery of file attributes and data to the physical backup media or volumes. In other words, the Storage Daemon is responsible for reading and writing your tapes (or other storage media, e.g., files). The Storage service runs as a daemon on the machine that has the backup device (for example a tape drive or a large disk).

The Storage Daemon can write to multiple storage types:

• its local storage

• any attached disk through Fiber Channel, iSCSI, SAN, etc.

• tapes

• clouds.

The data written can be compressed, encrypted or deduplicated. Consult the Storage Daemon Resource Types chapter to know more about the Storage Daemon resource and all possible directives to configure it.

See also

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