The fact of the matter is that we are living in a world that is becoming increasingly dependent on data. Also, from accidental deletion to a catastrophic hard drive failure, there are many threats to the safety of your data. The more important your data is and the more difficult it is to recreate if it were lost, the more important it is to have backups. So, this recipe shows you how you can set up a backup server using Bacula and how to configure other systems on your network to backup their data to it.
This recipe requires at least two CentOS systems with working network connections. The first system is the local system which we'll assume has the hostname benito and the IP address 192.168.56.41. The second system is the backup server. You'll need administrative access on both systems, either by logging in with the root account or through the use of sudo.