# Bacula 2.0.0 Press Kit

## Contents

Text of Original Release
Additional Features
Where to Download
Documentation
License
Contacts
Corporate Support
Links
Translations

## Original Press Release

4 January 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland: The Bacula Development Group today announces the release of version 2.0 of the Bacula Network Backup Solution. This release adds features, maturity, and performance requested by users, delivering quality and usability comparable to enterprise backup solutions. Version 2.0.0 is expected to drive even more migrations toward Bacula. The previous release was 1.38.11 on June 29, 2006.

"Though I haven't done a detailed study, this release probably represents the largest addition of important features since Bacula's beginning," said Bacula core team member and project co-founder Kern Sibbald. "This is in a large part due to the tremendous amount of community participation in the project -- thanks to everyone who made this possible".

New features and tools to make network backups easier include:

- Job Migration (from one Volume to another)
- bweb has been released, new program in the bacula-gui package
- New disk seek code for faster restores from disk-based Volumes
- Data encryption for Volumes
- Additional support for removable devices such as DVD and USB disk devices
- Win32 build now uses mingw32 cross compiling
- The Director and Storage daemon have now been ported to Win32.
- Bacula restore and bextract can now extract non-portable Win32 data to any client (including Unix/Linux clients)
- The 260 character limitation for Win32 paths name lengths is now eliminated
- Many enhancements for running scripts before and after jobs, both on the client and on the server
- Added support for SunOS ACLs
- Ability to enable/disable Volumes and jobs
- Enhanced support for DVD as a backup medium
- Enhanced spooling throughput when running multiple simultaneous jobs
- Windows tray status windows are scrollable and resizable
- Enhanced support for user use of Volume Management software (e.g. tape location)
- New man pages for most of Bacula's daemons and tools

About Bacula: Bacula is a set of computer programs for managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network. These programs, each performing a specific set of tasks, work together to provide a robust, easily managed, and complete backup solution for all environments. Bacula is the collective work of many developers, building upon six years of development. Bacula is an open source product and use is available without fees for both commercial and non-commercial applications.

Bacula's quality is demonstrated by inclusion in backup tutorials and books. It has gained widespread use in a very short period of time.

## Where to download

- Official Repository
- Packages are available for most operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOSX, Win32, Irix, AIX, HP-UX, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, etc)

## Documentation

- Official Documentation
- Tutorial
- Developer's Guide

## License

Bacula is licensed under the GPL, which means the source code is freely available. Bacula is available without fees for both commercial and non-commercial applications.

- Full license details

## Corporate Support

Bacula enjoys the support of numerous companies, who sponsor developers, provide hosting resources, and give us financial support.

There is also a large community of companies offering Bacula Support, from individual consultants to multinational companies.

Donations welcome

## Contacts

Bacula home page

General Inquiries:
Dan Langille
Bacula Project
+1 215 882 0565
press@bacula.org

## Links

### Graphical User Interfaces

- bimagemgr - Bimagemgr is a web based interface written in Perl that monitors disk Volumes intended to be written to CDROM.
- wx-console - wx-console is a graphical console interface written in wxWidgets and available on all client platforms.
- gnome-console - The gnome-console is a graphical console interface available on systems that support Gnome 2.x.
- tray-monitor - The tray-monitor is a daemon monitoring program that resides in the system tray.
- bweb - Bweb is a Perl based web program that provides a tool to do basic operations and get statistics.
- brestore - Brestore is a graphical restoration interface available on systems that support Perl/GTK/Glade.
- bacula-web - Bacula-web is a PHP based web program that provides a summarized output of jobs that have already run.

Full list of GUI Programs.

### Official Translations of This Document

- German

- French