Backup and Recovery Strategies Blog

Increased Needs For Ransomware Backup Protection Despite numerous cyber security incidents making international news on a regular basis over the last few years, it was specifically the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 that brought renewed and urgent focus on what organizations need to do to protect their businesses and services from ransomware. This attack…

Today is an exciting day because we are announcing the world’s first integration of Kubernetes Cluster protection by adding persistent volumes! Bacula Enterprise is the first Enterprise backup and recovery software to offer a fully automated, comprehensive backup of Kubernetes environments and follows on from Bacula’s announcement earlier this year of full backup and recovery…

This Patent covers deduplication technology, integrated into Bacula Enterprise to cover Physical, Virtual, Container and Cloud environments all in a single Enterprise Backup & Restore Platform. Bacula’s Deduplication capabilities are just one of the many qualities that make Bacula Enterprise such a heavy-lifting enterprise solution for large organizations. Bacula Systems is very proud to announce…

Today Bacula Systems announced its new module, specifically for safeguarding Kuberbetes Clusters. This announcement is just one more step in Bacula’s leadership in backup and recovery of Container deployments and environments, and follows on from its previous announcement regarding backup and recovery of Docker and its external volumes. Users of Kubernetes in production need a…

Bacula Systems has gone one step even further with its ground-breaking module for Docker automated Backup and Recovery:  it now supports backup and restore of Dockers’ external volumes. Aimed at easing the workloads of IT and DevOps departments using Docker, SUSE, CaaS or OpenShift, this advanced module now offers: •    Backup and Recovery of Docker…

As in previous years, WBSgo will be participating with Bacula Systems at Open Expo Europe, which this time has a more international reach, becoming what is now the largest professional Congress on Open Source, Open Data and Open Innovation in Europe. Professionals and technology enthusiasts can learn, first hand, more about WBSgo’s services, as well…

Today see’s Bacula System’s second major announcement in jut 4 weeks: this time it is the release of Bacula Enterprise 12. This new version brings its overall range of features and capabilities to be on a par with – or even beyond – that of practically all its competitors. There’s a disruptive side to this…

Regular backups are the most common and simple precaution that network administrators and individual business owners can use to guard against data loss. In order to be effective, limiting network access and facilitating open, ongoing communication between all parties is essential. It’s also important to spot vulnerabilities and patch them before they can be found…

Do You Really Need to Back Up a DevOps Environment? It may not always be necessary to back up all virtual environments utilized for experimentation or testing. But there are plenty of exceptions where data generated by containers and VMs have high value and need retaining for some period of time. Containers are seeing increasingly…

Despite the inroads made in large scale disk backup and backup to cloud strategies, magnetic tape backup and recovery remains a major component of many data protection architectures. Tape provides advantages that are hard to replace with any other technology. Factors such as data write speed, portability, reliability, ease of storage, and data density all…

Active Directory from Microsoft (MS AD) is one of the most widely used user authentication and network permissions management tools in the world. It allows for federated login across an entire corporate network and management of user roles and permissions from a single point across multiple services. This service is extremely valuable for larger and…

Large network file devices usually include significant internal redundancy that make them reliable sources to store critical data. Databases, end user files, and virtual disks all benefit from the speed, reliability, and expandability of centralized network file storage devices. However, there is some risk associated with this practice. The network storage device becomes a large…