Bacula

What Is Bacula? Bacula is an enterprise-grade backup framework that manages backup, recovery, and verification of data across a network. It uses a client-server architecture with three core components: the Director (schedules and coordinates), the Storage Daemon (manages backup media), and the File Daemon (runs on each client machine). Bacula is one of the oldest open-source backup systems (first released 2000) and is used in production at organizations managing petabytes of data. Prerequisites A Linux server (Ubuntu 22.04+ recommended) Docker and Docker Compose installed ( guide ) 2 GB of free RAM (minimum) Sufficient disk space for backup storage Network access to all machines you want to back up A domain name (optional, for remote web UI access) Docker Compose Configuration Bacula's architecture requires multiple communicating services. Create a docker-compose.yml file: services : bacula-director : image : bacularis/bacularis-standalone:6.0.0-trixie container_name : bacula-director