Bacula: Unbeatable in HPC and Super Computing Environments.
For an HPC data backup and disaster recovery strategy, you must adapt your IT environment to meet tomorrow’s security standards, integrate with increasingly diverse applications, data, and file types, and meet compliance requirements – and yet reduce costs at the same time. For example, these factors are more critical in the education, research, and defense sectors. There are very few backup vendors that can seamlessly perform these tasks. But Bacula can – with ease. For example, only Bacula can handle billions of files or perform strongly when high throughput is required. Bacula offers exceptionally high levels of security and performance in HPC environments when compared to other vendors.
“Of those evaluated, Bacula Enterprise was the only product that worked with HPSS out-of-the-box without vendor development, provided multi-user access, had encryption compliant with Federal Information Processing Standards, did not have a capacity-based licensing model, and was available within budget” – NASA
With its Open Source pedigree, Bacula Enterprise perfectly supports Posix compliant filesystems, helping you to avoid vendor lock-in. In addition, every filesystem that can be mounted to a Linux or Windows host can be used, including parallel and clustered filesystems such as Lustre or Quobyte. Today, POSIX file systems are the most common storage systems, providing a wide range of IO functions for applications to use, including byte-level access. However, with the large number of IO functions comes complexity, both for the application and the file system. Bacula helps HPC users significantly reduce complexity by being file system-agnostic. Here is a non-exhaustive list of filesystems that Bacula Systems customers use:
- ext 2|3|4
- xfs
- ReiserFS
- BeeGFS
- GlusterFS
- GFS
- GPFS
- Hadoop *
- HPSS
- Lustre
- Quobyte
- ZFS
- Swift *
*requires a Bacula Enterprise module (plugin)
Find out more regarding Bacula’s full integration with ZFS and its extremely high performance design. In addition, Bacula has further developed its renowned deduplication capability with new and more powerful scan and recovery tools.
As a proven HPC backup and recovery solution of exceptionally high performance, Bacula can easily handle vast volumes of data. With the increasing need for HPC solutions and further technological improvements, organizations are focusing on areas such as hybrid HPC solutions. Bacula anticipates technological and innovation improvements in the HPC space will increase, especially in Hybrid Cloud, edge compute, container technologies and security approaches. As IT teams work hard to create a balance between on-premises HPC solutions and cloud, Bacula provides a way to protect and recover these entire environments from a single platform.
