<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 2008 (1.71) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>SD Design Introduction</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="SD Design Introduction"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="developers"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="LaTeX2HTML v2008"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="developers.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="SD_Development_Outline.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="Storage_Daemon_Design.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="Storage_Daemon_Design.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="SD_Development_Outline.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html940" HREF="SD_Development_Outline.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html934" HREF="Storage_Daemon_Design.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html928" HREF="Storage_Daemon_Design.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html936" HREF="Contents.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html938" HREF="GNU_Free_Documentation_Lice.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="index.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html941" HREF="SD_Development_Outline.html">SD Development Outline</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html935" HREF="Storage_Daemon_Design.html">Storage Daemon Design</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html929" HREF="Storage_Daemon_Design.html">Storage Daemon Design</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html937" HREF="Contents.html">Contents</A></B> <B> <A NAME="tex2html939" HREF="GNU_Free_Documentation_Lice.html">Index</A></B> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION00910000000000000000"></A> <A NAME="2106"></A> <A NAME="2107"></A> <BR> SD Design Introduction </H1> <P> The Bacula Storage daemon provides storage resources to a Bacula installation. An individual Storage daemon is associated with a physical permanent storage device (for example, a tape drive, CD writer, tape changer or jukebox, etc.), and may employ auxiliary storage resources (such as space on a hard disk file system) to increase performance and/or optimize use of the permanent storage medium. <P> Any number of storage daemons may be run on a given machine; each associated with an individual storage device connected to it, and BACULA operations may employ storage daemons on any number of hosts connected by a network, local or remote. The ability to employ remote storage daemons (with appropriate security measures) permits automatic off-site backup, possibly to publicly available backup repositories. <P> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> 2010-06-14 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>