BCloud Service is a user-oriented web front-end for backup and recovery tasks. As a multi-tenant backup solution, it is designed to safely delegate straightforward and restricted backup administrator tasks to an end user that may not be required to have high level permissions or have access to the whole backup system. For example, ISPs and web hosting companies can use BCloud Service to enable their own customers to easily create and manage their own backup jobs, restore files, do LDAP authentication and much more.
BCloud Service utilizes Bacula’s REST-API to allow third person users (for example, junior administrators, or customers of MSPs) to utilize only a given portion of Bacula’s underlying backup infrastructure. It is designed to easily translate to different panels. Being user-oriented, it is simplified to be fast and efficient to use. Using Bacula, Hosting companies and Backup as a Service providers can exploit specialized tools to control and provision the size and scope of a customer’s self-service backup and recovery.
Backup as a Service – Managed Service Provider
What is it?
Traditional Backup vendors and the resulting processes inherited by the MSP do not encourage users to back up data. It is counter-intuitive, because vendors typically license by data volume. This constrains the MSP and correspondingly, their customers. The solution is to use BCloud Service’s agile architecture and interface to help MSP’s enable and encourage the MSP’s customers to back up their own data – in the way, place and time they wish to do it, but with overall control maintained by the MSP, such as allotted pool for data volume.
Why do it?
Value of Bacula’s BCloud Service:
An example of a Cloud Service End-user:
The cloud user may be either an internal or external backup service customer, who is given access to a very simple, clean, automated, safe and error-proof backup self-service interface. This user is allowed and able to perform one or all of the following tasks:
An example of a Cloud Service Administrator:
The Cloud Administrator is the internal or external service provider manager, responsible for the BaaS platform availability, continuity, scalability, and performance. His roles are usually the following:
University IT Services
University IT centres are typically resource constrained and therefore have to be careful to offer other University departments a clearly defined set of backup services. These services usually have limits, for example where the central IT service may only offer file-based backup and recovery services to other University departments. These departments are often charged for any additional services outside of the defined services.
The solution is to use Bacula’s BCloud Service to enable other university departments to independently backup and recover their own data, while the central IT department can still retain overall management, control and authority over core data backup responsibilities.
Why do it?
Value of Bacula
Large Data Center – IT Services
What is it?
Some organizations do not have an IT team where each person has advanced abilities in data management, backup and recovery and need to delegate certain backup duties to less senior staff. However, many legacy backup and recovery solutions have complicated interfaces that take significant training time to operate safely, or present an over-exposure of operational accidents that can result in serious data loss. The solution is to use Bacula’s BCloud Service to safely delegate carefully defined and restricted backup and recovery jobs to the appropriate people, while senior staff retain overall control of critical data backup.
Why do it?
Value of Bacula
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