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.TH BACULA\-SD 8 "28 October 2017" "Kern Sibbald" "Network backup, recovery & verification"
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.SH NAME
.B bacula\-fd
\- Bacula's File Daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bacula\-fd
.RI [ options ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B bacula
command.
.br
Bacula's File Daemon acts as the interface between the Bacula
network backup system and the filesystems to be backed up: it is
responsible for reading/writing/verifying the files to be
backup'd/verified/restored. Network transfer can optionally be
compressed. 
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-c\   file
Specify the configuration file to use.
.TP
.BI \-d\  nn
Set debug level to \fInn\fP.
.TP
.BI \-dt
Print timestamp in debug output.
.TP
.BI \-T
Send debug messages to the trace file.
.TP
.BI \-f
Run in foreground (for debugging).
.TP
.BI \-g\  group
Set the group/gid to run as.
.TP
.BI \-k
Keep readall permission when dropping privileges.
.TP
.BI \-m
Print kaboom output (for debugging).
.TP
.BI \-P
Do not create a PID file.
.TP
.BI \-s
No signals (for debugging).
.TP
.B \-t
Test the configuration file and report errors.
.TP
.BI \-u\  user
Set the username/uid to run as.
.TP
.BI \-v
Set verbose mode.
.TP
.B \-?
Show version and usage of program.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR bacula\-dir (8),
.BR bacula\-sd (8).
.br
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv\-solutions.net>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.