NAME¶

bacula-fd - Bacula's File Daemon

SYNOPSIS¶

bacula-fd [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the bacula command.
Bacula's File Daemon acts as the interface between the Bacula network backup system and the filesystems to be backed up: it is responsible for reading/writing/verifying the files to be backup'd/verified/restored. Network transfer can optionally be compressed.

OPTIONS¶

-c file

Specify the configuration file to use.

-d nn

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).

-g group

Set the group/gid to run as.

-k

Keep readall permission when dropping privileges.

-m

Print kaboom output (for debugging).

-P

Do not create a PID file.

-s

No signals (for debugging).

-t

Test the configuration file and report errors.

-u user

Set the username/uid to run as.

-v

Set verbose mode.

-?

Show version and usage of program.

SEE ALSO¶

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

AUTHOR¶

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

COPYRIGHT¶

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