Bacula is an open source system used to manage backups across multiple computers running different operating systems.

This assumes that you already have the Bacula director installed and functioning correctly. This procedure has been verified to work using CentOS 4.6 running as the director and Windows Server 2008 as the host to back up.

Step 1: Install the Bacula client on the windows machine you want to back up

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The following is a list of the steps you need to perform to configure and enable the built-in Windows 2003 server. Before you start, you need to make sure that you actually have the FTP server installed. Depending on what server role you selected during the Windows 2003 server install process, you may or may not have FTP installed.

In Windows 2003, when the server is a domain controller or password policy is in effect, you must have a "strong" password in order to create an account. By default, this password policy requires at least 7 characters and at least 1 numeric character or at least 1 special character (*&^%$#@, etc.)

When you attempt to create an account, you will probably see a dialog that says this:

Windows cannot set the password for [user] because:

By default in Windows Server 2003, you can be logged in via Remote Desktop (formerly known as Terminal Services or "TS" if you're "really cool.") up to 2 times. Basically, you can login as administrator or other account that belongs to the Remote Desktop Users group 2 times simultaneously without additional licenses.

The following are the steps you would need to take if you want to configure a VPN on a Windows 2003 server where you only have a single network card (NIC) exposed to the Internet. What we will do here is configure a site-to-site VPN so that clients can connect securely while still allowing other types of web traffic such as HTTP (port 80) and/or RDP (port 3389) to connect. This method sets up a secure tunnel for clients while allowing other types of web-based services to still be open and exposed on the same network card.