bacula-dir - Bacula Director

       This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>.

       This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Kern Sibbald                                     28 October 2017                                   BACULA-DIR(8)

       This manual page documents briefly the bacula-dir command.
       Bacula's  Director  Daemon  acts  as  the  controller of the network backup system: it is responsible for
       scheduling and coordinating backups across the network.

bacula-dir - Bacula Director

-cfile
              Specify the configuration file to use.

       -dnn  Set debug level to nn.

       -dt    Print timestamp in debug output.

       -T     Send debug messages to the trace file.

       -f     Run in foreground (for debugging).

       -ggroup
              Set the group/gid to run as.

       -m     Print kaboom output (for debugging).

       -P     Do not create a PID file.

       -rjob Run <job>.

       -s     No signals (for debugging).

       -t     Test the configuration file and report errors.

       -uuser
              Set the username/uid to run as.

       -v     Set verbose mode.

       -?     Show version and usage of program.

bacula-fd(8), bacula-sd(8).

bacula-dir [options]

       Tcpwrappers looks for the service name of the bacula daemons in hosts.allow , and the  service  names  of
       these  daemons  is  configured  to  be different from the binary.  The service names are configured to be
       %hostname%-%component% rather than bacula-dir (As defined in the bacula-dir.conf.in file)

       So the hosts.allow entry has to match %hostname%-%component%  (servername-dir  for  example)  instead  of
       bacula-%component%

       WARNING: This means that if the hosts.allow file has the entry:

       bacula-dir:ALL

       you will not be able to run bconsole to connect to the local director!

       The entry would have to read:

       server-dir:ALL

       and this will allow the console to connect to the director.  (The process running is bacula-dir.)