Booking.com Relies on Bacula Systems
Booking.com uses Bacula Enterprise backup and recovery to help safeguard its multiple business-critical datasets
Booking.com’s core MySQL, NetApp, and Quobyte datastores benefit directly from Bacula’s powerful capability in large, demanding environments – in conjunction with its broad industry support for practically any immutable storage platform-type. This unique mix of application and storage integration, combined with Bacula’s high security capabilities is key for Booking.com.
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Bacula’s High-Performance integration with MySQL
The MySQL Plugin provided by Bacula Enterprise offers a streamlined, enterprise-grade approach to securing MySQL environments. It can capture databases, configurations, user definitions, and operational metadata automatically, granting consistent policy-driven protection with reliable recovery of business-critical systems.
The module supports binary and logical (dump) backup methods, along with integrated Point-in-Time Recovery that allows for data restoration to its precise transactional state while minimizing downtime. A combination of object-level filtering and metadata awareness provides extensive recovery options and granular control, with Bacula Enterprise being particularly useful for compliance-driven environments because of its strong focus on security, role-based access, auditability, and encryption.
Bacula’s platform is built with massive scale and operational flexibility in mind, with the MySQL module supporting distributed and hybrid infrastructures, along with a wide range of MySQL versions up to 8.0 on Linux platforms. It allows IT teams to acquire single-pane-of-glass protection for all kinds of diverse environments in the same system, with all the performance, resilience, and centralized management benefits that are expected from an enterprise backup solution.
Bacula Enterprise and NetApp
Bacula offers deep integration with NetApp storage environments, allowing companies to protect their enterprise data in ONTAP-based systems with a high degree of control and efficiency. Bacula Enterprise can easily work with NetApp snapshots with the help of features like native snapshot orchestration and API-driven automation – while also maintaining complete visibility and centralized policy-based management across the overall backup infrastructure. This way, IT teams can combine the governance, retention, and cataloging capabilities of enterprise backup platforms with the speed of storage-level snapshots in a single solution.
This integration supports scalable data protection for large and complex environments, including hybrid and multi-site deployments. All these capabilities are also provided with all the necessary enterprise security and compliance requirements in mind. Bacula applies encryption, role-based controls, and auditability to enterprise environments – making sure that NetApp storage investments operate within a secure, scalable, and policy-driven backup architecture that can easily handle the most complex workloads.
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