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Thank you for assessing this special Bacula Enterprise Trial version. Bacula Enterprise is the leading Enterprise Open Core network backup and restore software, and is world-renowned for being exceptionally secure, flexible and scalable – with an industry-leading range of features. The purpose of this Trial is to provide you with rapid, simple access and have the best possible experience as you evaluate our enterprise products.

To begin to get the feel of Bacula Enterprise, we recommend you simply follow the scenarios as described later in this guide. These scenarios are designed to demonstrate the basic functionality of Bacula. If you have any  questions or difficulties in completing these scenarios, please contact us. You can also check Bacula Enterprise’s numerous features and configuration possibilities in the general Bacula Main Manual included in the trial by clicking “Help => Documentation” from the main menu in BWeb.

This Trial (non-production) version is limited to just a few capabilities and serves only to introduce you to Bacula. Please note that the full production (non-Trial) version of Bacula Enterprise has an especially wide range of features and capabilities compared to most other backup and recovery software. For example, the production version of Bacula offers the world’s largest choice of native integration plugins for different virtual environments and different databases. Similarly, Bacula Enterprise has specific plugins for a wide range of Cloud gateways.

Therefore, for speed and simplicity, this Trial version comes with a reduced number of plugins (modules). The plugins available to you in this Trial are:

 

Remember, more advanced features and plugins are available on request.

 

Contents

  1. Welcome to the Bacula Enterprise Trial
  2. Introducing Bacula Enterprise
  3. Ready to Get Started?
  4. Scenario 1: Deduplicated Backups
  5. Scenario 2: Delete and Restore Using BWeb GUI
  6. Scenario 3: Backup and Restore Using Bconsole
  7. Scenario 4: Backing Up To The Cloud
  8. Completing Your Trial