BACULA-SD(8)

💅 NAME 💅

bacula-fd — Bacula's File Daemon, and no I will not stop talking about her 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bacula-fd [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so real quick: this manual page is the little overview of the bacula command. we're keeping it brief, bestie, but we're keeping it thorough.

Here's the vibe: Bacula's File Daemon is the main character that sits between the whole Bacula network backup system and the actual filesystems you're trying to back up. She's the one doing the work — reading, writing and verifying the files that get backed up, verified or restored. That's literally her whole job and she eats every time 🔥

And the network transfer? It can optionally be compressed. slay. 💅

also a tiny heads-up: the page header up top says BACULA-SD(8) but the daemon we're actually documenting down here is bacula-fd, and the NAME + SYNOPSIS say so. i'm just the messenger, bestie 🙈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -c file — point at the configuration file you wanna use. choose your own adventure, fr.
• -d nn — set the debug level to nn. crank that dial.
• -dt — print a timestamp in the debug output. receipts, but make them time-stamped ⏰
• -T — send those debug messages to the trace file instead.
• -f — run in the foreground. classic debugging move, for when you need to actually watch her.
• -g group — set the group / gid she runs as.
• -k — keep the readall permission when dropping privileges. don't let it go, girl 💅
• -m — print kaboom output. yes that's the actual flag description, and yes it's for debugging. iconic honestly 💀
• -P — do not create a PID file.
• -s — no signals. debugging mode, obviously.
• -t — test the configuration file and report any errors. the vibe check 🫶
• -u user — set the username / uid she runs as.
• -v — set verbose mode. she will be telling you things.
• -? — show the version and usage of the program. the little "hi, here's me" moment.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• bacula-dir(8), bacula-sd(8).

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>. giving credit where credit is due, always 🎀

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. free and open, as she should be ✨

okay bestie that's the whole page, you're basically a Bacula File Daemon expert now 💖 this was Kern Sibbald, 28 October 2017, and the page is the BACULA-SD(8) manual — go forth and back things up, no cap 🌸🦋