High Levels of Automation for HPC Users
Bacula offers an amazing degree of customization and automation in practically every part of its broad feature-set. Contact Bacula for more details on its high automation levels.
The Broadest Tape Compatibility of any backup vendor
For HPC environments that have petabytes of data to store, tape can still be the best option for long term archival and meeting RPO’s. It’s also very effective regarding retention requirements and media preservation. Today’s LTO-08 and LTO-9 tape drives have impressive specs including transfer rates up to 400 MB/sec. native, and storing up 18 TB of raw and up to 45 TB of compressed capacity. Bacula Enterprise is ideal for tape admins as we never license based on data volume and deliver unique features such as ACSLS support. Bacula supports tape libraries from the world’s top manufacturers and provides all tape library management operations. It also supports named user access to ACSLM, tape drive and volume locking in shared ACSLS environment, lock query and management, static tape drive location mapping and dynamic volume location mapping. Please note: Bacula is an industry leading backup and recovery solution for immutable backup.
Total Fit: Bacula’s Ultra-Broad HPC Compatibility
Bacula’s extensive compatibility with HPC technologies contributes to a positive change in technologies and tools to automate processes and to apply consistent governance across an HPC Federal/National laboratory or research organizations. For example, Bacula offers native integration with technologies such as HPSS, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, SAP Hana, GPFS, etc. Bacula supports over 33 different operating system versions!
As more HPC-driven research and government agencies shift to using Bacula, a pattern of needs clearly emerges from these organizations, and the reasons why the shift takes place. The Bacula Systems white paper ‘Data Backup and Recovery in Federal and National Research Agencies‘ discusses the considerations and advantages of using FIPS 140-3 compliant Bacula Enterprise as a central data backup and recovery system within research organizations, and how it can – and does – facilitate a specific, yet critical part in these organization’s enterprise-wide approach to digital modernization.