Corporate Data Backup and Recovery Features in Bacula Enterprise Edition

Bacula Enterprise integrates the core features from Bacula community projects with specific advanced technologies to create one of the most powerful and stable enterprise-class backup & restore solutions available. It includes exclusive features as well as specific plugins to modernize your data recovery strategy, increase your efficiency, and significantly drive costs down.

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Virtual Environment Backup

• VMware client-free tool
• Hyper-V tool
• Xen tool
• Promox tool
• KVM tool
• Red Hat Virtualization tool

Snapshot Management

• Snapshot technology and Snapshot Management to get a read-only copy of the data set frozen at a point in time which allows applications to continue writing their data

Backup Levels

• Progressive Virtual Full capability for massive time-saving
• Differential, Full, Incremental, and ‘virtual-full’ backup and data recovery functionality
• Bare Metal Recovery plugin for Linux and Windows systems (with UEFI and EFI support)

MSP and Hosting Companies

• REST API to define, easily and with a standard programming tool, new services for MSPs’ customers
• Native cloud integration – via S3, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud interface
• BWeb Management Suite to configure, deploy, analyse and manage your Backup & Restore infrastructure
• BCloud Service, advanced self service backup for hosting companies, MSPs, IaaS and BaaS providers

Even More Features

• Automated Backup for Docker
• Client Initiated Backup
• Built-in Job scheduler
• Restart incomplete jobs
• Stop and restart jobs
• Bandwidth limitation
• Always back up a file
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
• Client Behind NAT

Database Backup

• MSSQL tool
• PostgreSQL tool
• MySQL tool
• Oracle tool
• SAP HANA tool
• SAP (Sybase) ASE
• MySQL Percona tool

Windows Environment

• Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) enabling files to be transparently encrypted to protect confidential data from attackers with physical access to the computer
• Support for Windows mount point snapshots
• Bacula Microsoft VSS plugin with support for MS SQL Server and MS Exchange
• Directory Server tool (OpenLDAP and Active Directory)

Deduplication and compression

• Global Endpoint deduplication™ (deduplication from the client to the storage) capabilities to greatly save hardware costs and minimize network bandwidth utilization
• Filesystems deduplication (Aligned Volume Format)
• Delta tool
• Communication line compression, allowing users to divide by 3 the volume of data transmitted across communication lines

Storage Backup

• Storage Daemon to Storage Daemon (SD2SD) for replication capabilities, with deduplication
• Storage Daemon on Windows systems
• Storage Daemon calls File Daemon (Firewall)
• Storage Daemon Reporting allows to retrieve a range of information such as available disk space and disk usage information
• NDMP tool
• SAN Shared Tape Library Module
• Incremental Accelerator for NetApp

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• All drive plugin to automatically generate a Fileset including all drives in a Windows environment
• Backup and restore clients of any type ensuring that all (and many types of) attributes of files are properly saved and restored
• Multi-volume backups and data recovery supported
• A full comprehensive SQL standard database of all files backed up. This permits online viewing of files saved on any particular volume, and advanced reporting capabilities.

Job Control:

• Network backup/restore with centralized Director
• Internal scheduler for automatic Job execution
• Scheduling of multiple Jobs at the same time
• You may run one Job at a time or multiple simultaneous Jobs (sometimes called multiplexing)
• Job sequencing using priorities
• GUI interface (Bacula Administration Tool aka BAT)

Data Recovery Features:

• Restore options available at configuration step for all plugins for higher restore process reliability
• Restore of one or more files selected interactively either for the current backup or a backup prior to a specified time and date
• Restore of a complete system starting from bare metal. This is mostly automated for Linux systems and for Solaris
• Listing and Restoration of files using stand-alone bls and bextract tool programs. Among other things, this permits extraction of files when Bacula® and/or the catalog are not available. Note, the recommended way to restore files is using the restore command in the Console. These programs are designed for use as a last resort
• Ability to restore the catalog database rapidly by using bootstrap files (previously saved)
• Ability to recreate the catalog database by scanning backup Volumes using the bscan program

Advanced Volume and Pool Management:

• Labeled Volumes, preventing accidental overwriting (at least by Bacula). Bacula Enterprise Edition also supports IBM /ANSI tape labels, which are recognized by many enterprise tape-managing softwares
• Any number of Jobs and Clients can be backed up to a single Volume. That is, you can backup and restore Linux, Unix, Sun, and Windows machines to the same Volume. You can also save jobs from different dates on one volume
• Multi-volume saves. When a Volume is full, Bacula automatically requests the next Volume and continues the backup
• Pool and Volume library management providing Volume flexibility (e.g. monthly, weekly, daily Volume sets, Volume sets segregated by Client)
• Machine independent Volume data format. Linux, Solaris, and Windows clients can all be backed up to the same Volume if desired
• The Volume data format is upwards compatible so that old Volumes can always be read
• A flexible message handler including routing of messages from any daemon back to the Director and automatic email reporting
• Data spooling to disk during backup with subsequent write to tape from the spooled disk files. This prevents tape “shoe shine” during Incremental/Differential backups

State of the art Security:

• FIPS 140-2 compliant
• Data encryption cipher (AES 128, AES192, AES256 or blowfish) and the digest algorithm
• Windows Encrypting File System (EFS)
• Verify the reliability of existing backed up data or detect Silent Data Corruption
• Verification of files previously catalogued, permitting a Tripwire like capability (system break-in detection)
• CRAM-MD5 password authentication between each component (daemon)
• Configurable TLS (SSL) communications encryption between each component
• Configurable Data (on Volume) encryption on a Client by Client basis
• Computation of MD5 or SHA1 signatures of the file data if requested
• Automatic use of TLS for all network communications (can be turned off)

SQL Catalog:

• Catalog database facility for remembering Volumes, Pools, Jobs, and Files backed up
• Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite Catalog databases
• User extensible queries to the MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases

Advanced Support for most Storage Devices:

• Autochanger support using a simple shell interface that can interface to virtually any autoloader program. A script for mtx is provided
• Support for autochanger barcodes; automatic tape labeling from barcodes
• Automatic support for multiple autochanger magazines either using barcodes or by reading the tapes
• Support for multiple drive autochangers
• All Volume blocks (approximately 64K bytes) contain a data checksum
• Migration support: move data from one Pool to another or one Volume to another

Miscellaneous:

• Multi-threaded implementation
• A comprehensive and extensible configuration file for each daemon
• Storage Daemon Reporting
• Console interface to the Director allowing complete control
• Raw device backup/restore. Restore must be to the same device

• Doing backup to tape media? Take a look at our tape backup solutions.
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• Our server backup solutions include Windows, Linux and are flexible and customizable to your infrastructure.