What's the advantage of Shared objects?
An important advantage of using shared objects is that on a machine with the Directory, File daemon, the Storage daemon, and a console, you will have only one copy of the code in memory rather than four copies. Also the total size of the binary release is smaller since the library code appears only once rather than once for every program that uses it; this results in significant reduction in the size of the binaries particularly for the utility tools.

Another important feature is Virtual Backup. Bacula's virtual backup feature is often called Synthetic Backup or Consolidation in other backup products. It permits you to consolidate the previous Full backup plus the most recent Differential backup and any subsequent Incremental backups into a new Full backup. This is accomplished without contacting the client by reading the previous backup data and writing it to a volume in a different pool.

Are these features important for large enterprises?
Certainly. Actually, a lot of customers have been asking us for help with either Bacula Pilot projects in their enterprises, or Best-Practice implementations of our technology. So we have made some new consulting services available at low cost; the Bacula Systems 'Pilot Package', and 'Implementation Package'. The idea of these packages is to give the enterprise a very low risk, low-cost way to get Bacula up and running in a matter of days.

Bacula Systems Partner Spotlight: Mandriva

Mandriva has become a Bacula Systems Premier Partner. Mandriva will be a reseller of the Bacula Systems Subscription, complementing Mandriva's own suite of products and services."Mandriva is committed to offering its customers the highest quality service available, and is proud to have become a Bacula Premier Partner", said Sébastien Lefebvre, Vice President, Enterprise Business Unit, Mandriva. In a further development, Bacula is to be integrated into the upcoming Mandriva Enterprise Server 5 release. "With Mandriva's MES 5, the enterprise will soon be able to benefit from a very well packaged and simplified distribution to support its critical services and infrastructure", said Lefebvre, Vice President, Enterprise Business Unit, Mandriva. "This comprehensive and stable enterprise platform will now also include Bacula's highly scalable and modern backup technology. Bacula is a high performance, advanced enterprise-grade backup solution that can reduce an enterprise's backup costs by a factor of ten" added Lefebvre. Read the full Mandriva case study here

Industry focus:	Mandriva serves both the corporate market (enterprises, government organizations and educational institutions) and the consumer market
Country:	France
Bacula Systems Partner Level:	Premier
Core competencies:	Mandriva helps large and medium size organizations to migrate to Linux, thanks to its Corporate Desktop and Corporate Server products, and helps them administer large numbers of machines via its system administration tool, Pulse. The company provides technology, products and services (consulting, training and support) to its corporate customers.
Web site:	www.mandriva.com

Summary of Bacula binary packages - now available

Bacula packages help you to rapidly locate the correct binary build for your specific platform. This extensive list of binaries is a great reference, and saves time in finding what you need. If you already registered with Bacula Systems, just log in, and access the packages web page here. Otherwise, you can register here.

Note: these binaries are not certified by Bacula Systems.