IBAdmin

IBAdmin is a new Bacula Enterprise administration GUI dedicated to Inteos Backup users. But currently as a general purpose tool it can be used by any BEE enthusiasts.

• Bacula Community 9.2.x support was officially added in version Community.2019.01

Main functionality

Jobs

• Any Bacula Enterprise Job management - start, stop, cancel, delete
• View Job log with data location and saved files
• View Job progress if running with statistics and job log
• Make a Job comment at any time when a job is running or finished
• Create and Edit job configuration - no need to handle schedule, fileset and pool creation separately
• Separate historic jobs list - successful, error, warning
• Job statistics - size, time, average speed
• Job restore
• Delete Job configuration and history - background task
• System Jobs protected on delete

Client

• Create and Edit Backup client configuration - 4 types of Backup clients available: Standalone, Cluster node, Cluster service and Alias
• Backup client configuration file generation (bacula-fd.conf) for standalone and cluster clients
• Create a client default job with Backup client creation
• Backup client configuration information, jobs defined and history
• Backup client online status
• Delete client configuration with all client's defined jobs and job history - background task
• Initial default Backup client created during initialization - protected on delete

Storage

• Initial default Storage created during initialization including:
  • Disk based Storage
  • Deduplication Storage - Bacula Enterprise / Inteos Backup only
  • Tape library - autodetection
• Create and Edit additional local Storage (uses the same local bacula-sd component):
  • Disk based Storage
  • Deduplication Storage - if not created already
  • Tape library - autodetection
  • Storage Alias to already defined storage
• Storage online status with Devices view
• Deduplication engine online status for Deduplication Storage
• Storage configuration information and jobs history
• Initial default Storage - protected on delete
  • If you define additional Storage you can switch default (protected) Storage to new Storage

Volumes

• Most Bacula Enterprise Volumes management - open/close (Append/Used), recycle and delete
  • IBAdmin deletes volumes in catalog only, no volumes delete from filesystem - the same as Bacula
• Volume information and stored jobs
• Volume logs
• Make a Volume comment at any time - the only Bacula application with this functionality

Configuration management

• IBAdmin stores all its managed configuration in database and uses transactions for changes
• Pure Bacula configuration files could be extracted using dedicated ibadconf utility
• All standard configuration changes are made instantaneous - no need to reload Director every time you've made a change
• Storage configuration changes requires a Storage Daemon restart - Bacula Enterprise limitation
• Client configuration changes requires Admin to populate new configuration file to client

Statistics

• IBAdmin has a dedicated statistics collector daemon - ibadstatd
• ibadstatd collect performance and statistics metrics in the following areas:
  • Bacula and Catalog,
  • Client and Daemons availaility,
  • CPU, Disk, Filesystems, Memory and Network
• All statistics are collected once a minute and backup client availability for offline clients once a number of defined backup clients in minutes
• All statics are stored in database for fast retrieval and aggregation
• Available statistics areas: Backup, System, Daemons
• Available statistics groups in Backup: Jobs, Volumes, Tapes, Sizes
• Available statistics groups in System: CPU, Memory, Swap, Disks, Filesystems, Network
• Available statistics groups in Daemons: Backup Server, Clients
• All statistics available in three plots: Area chart, Line chart and Bar chart
• For size/speed unit statistics (Bytes or Bytes/s) you can change required scale in: Bytes/kBytes/MBytes/GBytes/TBytes
• You can change a chart time period with some predefined ranges (last hour, today, last 24h, last 7days, last 30days, last month, this month) or input a custom range
• Default charts shows a historical statistics for every parameter
• You can enable online (live) statistics for a last hour time range on every statistics which will update a chart every minute - the same as ibadstatd collector does

IBAdmin GUI interface

• IBAdmin application highly uses Bootstrap and jQuery for building a dynamic and responsive interface available on any device - yes it is working on your smartphone without a problem
• All valuable data about your system are updated dynamically on any page without reload or needs to use refresh button
• All automatic data display updates are done once a minute - you can force an update in most cases with refresh button

Background tasks

• Some time consuming tasks like deleting a Backup client which has defined a lot of jobs and much more jobs history are performed by a dedicated background task manager - ibadtasks
• You can track background task progress on the main page where you have initiated the task or you can go to other pages letting a task to complete (as you can guess) in background
• You can list all running and finished tasks in Tasks menu
• You can verify a status of background task for any error at background task log