Welcome to Bacula-Web project

What is Bacula-Web ?

Bacula-Web is an open-source web interface built to help you monitor and understand your Bacula backups more easily. Bacula itself is a powerful backup solution. It can handle complex infrastructures, multiple devices, and large volumes of data. But it’s primarily command-line driven, which means monitoring often requires digging through logs and running manual checks. Bacula-Web gives you a clearer view. It turns raw backup data into structured dashboards, reports, and visual insights so you can quickly see what’s running, what failed, and what needs attention.No change to your Bacula setup. Just better visibility into what’s already there !

Why backup visibility matters ?

Backups are critical infrastructure. But a backup system is only reliable if you can trust it and that trust comes from visibility.

In many environments, these problems often go unnoticed until the moment a restore is needed.

And that’s when it’s too late. Monitoring isn’t just about checking if a job ran successfuly.

It’s about understanding patterns, spotting anomalies, and identifying weak points before they turn into incidents.

Key Bacula-Web features

Dashboard Overview

Get a clear, real-time overview of your backup environment. See the status of your jobs, recent history, volume usage, and system health at a glance. No need to jump between logs or run multiple commands.

Backup Job Monitoring

Track active and completed jobs with full visibility and details. Quickly identify failed jobs, review detailed logs, and check execution statistics. When something goes wrong, you know exactly where to look.

Job and Volume Reports

Access structured reports on job status, execution time, and storage usage. Understand which jobs succeed, which fail, how long they run, and how your volumes are being used including available capacity and usage trends.

User-friendly Interface

Bacula is powerful, but it was built for the terminal. Bacula-Web provides a clean, browser-based interface that makes monitoring easier without changing how Bacula works underneath.

Multi-language Support

Available in more than 15 languages, Bacula-Web is accessible to teams around the world.

Customizable Views

Focus on what matters to you. Customize dashboards and reports to display the information relevant to your infrastructure and workflow.

Support any Bacula catalog Database

Bacula-Web retrieves data from Bacula’s director database, compatible with MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, and provides comprehensive reports based on it.

Native authentication

Bacula-Web connects directly to the Bacula Director database. It supports MySQL / MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite and generates detailed reports based on your existing catalog data. No data duplication. No complex integration.

Native authentication

Access is protected through built-in user authentication. Only authorized users can log in and view backup data, adding an extra layer of security to your monitoring setup and mostly to your backed-up data !

Open source

Bacula-Web is fully open source and released under the GPL version 2 license.

You can use it, modify it, and contribute to it freely.

No hidden layers. No proprietary lock-in. And it will remain like this FOREVER (no Premium plan in the future, I promise).

Why teams choose Bacula-Web

Clean, responsive and user-friendly interface
Available in more than 15+ languages
Easy to install and maintain
100% web-based
Secure access with user authentication
Does not modify your Bacula catalog
Monitor several Bacula directory from one place

Bacula-Web works alongside your existing setup. It adds visibility, not complexity.

Run it anywhere

Bacula-Web is lightweight and flexible. You can install it on:

Any Linux distribution or *BSD like FreeBSD
macOs

It can be run using the following web server : Nginx, Apache and Lighttpd.

Or you can deploy it inside a Docker container.

No exotic requirements. No heavy dependencies.

How to get help

Found a bug? Have a feature request?
You can open an issue directly on the GitHub project.

Before submitting, please review the contribution and reporting guidelines to help us keep things organized and efficient.

Join the Community

Bacula-Web is driven by its users. Start a discussion, ask a question, or share feedback on GitHub.

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Contribute and support

We welcome contributions from the community. Whether it’s code, documentation improvements, translations, or ideas, every contribution helps move the project forward.

If you’d like to contribute, please check the contributor guide to get started.

Get it running quickly and start monitoring right away

Bacula-Web - Open source reporting and monitoring tool for Bacula