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# File Backup Software Solutions

## File backup software for enterprise data center.

The file backup software approach is core to Bacula. This means that Bacula will always consider complete files (with owner, group and permission attributes) when it runs a file backup job. For instance, an incremental file backup will check if a file has changed and, if this is true, the complete file will be transferred to the Storage Daemon and be written to volume.

**There are however, cases in which this is undesirable:**

1. when you have big files of which only a small portion changes;
2. when you have a lot of similar or even identical files and you do not want to transfer them over and over again.

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**To elegantly resolve both of these cases at once ,** Bacula’s [Global Endpoint Deduplication](/products/bacula-enterprise/global-endpoint-deduplication)
 feature is the solution of choice. This highly efficient deduplication engine will also treat your data with variable block sizes and will only write a pointer into the Bacula volume if a block is already present in the dedupe containers. This is especially useful in virtual environment where you have lots of identical machines (e.g. Windows servers) where the [system](/data-backup-systems)
 hard disk files look nearly identical. Global Endpoint Deduplication is native in Bacula, working at the core level, so it is independent from the destination storage. The savings are enormous compared to a traditional file backup software approach. Bacula Enterprise gives a professional IT department a vast range of advantages that mean flexibility and choice for the user. The scalability advantages, in terms of both physical size – and cost reduction – over legacy solutions is enormous. [Contact](/contactus)
 one of our senior experts today to find out how your IT department can benefit from best enterprise backup software available.

Bacula Enterprise backup file software goes even further by offering a special [filesystems deduplication](https://www.baculasystems.com/corporate-data-backup-software-solutions/bacula-enterprise-data-backup-software/deduplication-volumes/)
 that uses an aligned volume format. If you have already a NAS or other external system doing effective Deduplication services, Bacula can optimize the backup sent to it through its Aligned Volumes plugin. This stores data on disks by aligning file boundaries to the block boundary of the underlying filesystem. The savings can be huge, and this can save a lot of storage space if your incremental changes of files are small compared to the overall file sizes.

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**Further help on file backup software:**

- Looking for server backup? Take a look at out [server backup software](/enterprise-backup-solution-with-bacula-systems/server-backup) .
- Does Bacula support your storage type? Take a look at out [storage backup solutions](/enterprise-backup-solution-with-bacula-systems/storage-backup-software-solution-from-bacula-systems) .

- BWeb™ Management Suite is a comprehensive [backup and recovery management software](/products/bweb) for Bacula Enterprise that provides the data reports, core metrics and analysis that system administrators need to provide to managers.
- Doing backup to tape media? Take a look at our [tape backup systems](/enterprise-backup-solution-with-bacula-systems/tape-backup-software-solution-from-bacula-systems) .