Linux Backup Software Solutions from Bacula

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The Native Linux Backup Software Solution – Bacula Enterprise.

Bacula Enterprise was built from the ground up as a native Linux backup solution. From its early beginning Linux has been the fundamental operating system for the usage and development of Bacula due to the features and benefits it offers. Our highly scalable, enterprise-grade Linux backup solution is the easy and powerful way to backup server, directories & files and restore data in seconds. Compared to other Linux backup and recovery solutions, Bacula Enterprise is one of the most flexible, scriptable, secure, modular and technology-compatible Linux backup tool available in the market. That includes physical, virtual, container and cloud Linux backups using S3, AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Glacier and other public and private clouds.

Bacula Systems’ Linux backup solution capabilities are delivered by Bacula Enterprise and a large number of advanced tools which are available to precisely protect huge volumes of Linux-based data at a low cost. This is because Bacula has no data volume charges.

Bacula has a small footprint, while being highly configurable at the same time. In fact, Bacula Enterprise is one of the most configurable Linux backup software in the world. Why? So you have the power to do backups and restore files, directories or folders exactly the way you want to. Just see what our customers such as NASA, Sky, Swisscom and Tricore Solutions say!

Using Bacula Enterprise as your advanced Linux backup solution allows you to:

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Deploy quickly and backup Linux servers, files and folders easily, with the enterprise product working “out-of-the-box”
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Execute Linux server backup and restore easily using either command line, and/or the modern BWeb Management Suite™ GUI in several clicks. In case of using the console it has all the features for Linux backup and restore commands and can be installed on a specific computer in the organization only for the administration activity. With the web console the access to Linux backup and recovery commands is granted from anywhere with authorization through the browser
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Backup Linux server and restore single files, folders or the whole system in seconds with several clicks or a few commands
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Backup partition of the Linux disks which allows to have a precise image which is easy to manage and recover in several simple steps

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Save time during the backup of Linux servers by using snapshot backup technology without the service interruption
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Exploit Bacula’s Linux incremental and Virtual Full™ backup capabilities, together with its other many choices of backup levels (full, differential, incremental, virtual full)
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Save storage and network bandwidth by using Global Endpoint Deduplication
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Perform Linux cloud backups to S3, Azure, Google, Oracle and other clouds

Bacula Enterprise supports the vast majority of Linux distributions, including the most popular:

And many others.

Bacula Enterprises’ open source roots mean it is the natural choice as a native Linux backup solution. It is developed on Linux and as such, delivers exceptionally high performance and stability. For example, the speed and ease of use it brings in backing up databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL are the most advanced in the industry.

Linux server backup software

The powerful Linux backup tools’ portfolio further broadens the usage of Bacula Enterprise:

Bare Metal Recovery

Perform safe and reliable Linux disaster recovery in just seconds in the event of general failures of the hardware and storage systems from a previously generated system image.

Dump and binary mode backups for your MySQL database on Linux which guarantee the integrity and consistency of the stored information either in standalone mode or in cluster mode.Backup Linux server with PostgreSQL cluster seamlessly.Manage Linux backups and restores in one click and monitor backup statistics with this powerful browser-based user friendly and intuitive GUI.Backing up your virtual machines has never been easier for VMware, KVM, XEN, Red Hat, Proxmox and Hyper-V. Witness some of the quickest and easiest data recovery you have ever seen in enterprise-grade backup software. This industry-leading speed and convenience also comes with Single File Restore capability, including tools to rapidly locate files.Execute Linux backup to tape media with our industry-leading tape backup systems support. Our tape solution is enterprise-level and agnostic to many tape drives, autochangers and autoloaders. The architecture also supports VTL.

Automation tools

Backup and recovery operations’ automation is also available while using Bacula Enterprise and its Linux backup tools. With our scheduler, scripting and automatic task maintenance Linux backup will never be a problem.

 

Cloud backup

Don’t forget about Bacula’s native cloud integration which will be useful for enterprise-grade Linux server backups. This powerful capability to backup Linux server to any public cloud incl. S3, Google, Azure, Oracle and others clouds delivers never-seen-before levels of control when interacting with the cloud, and includes Bacula’s exclusive Minimal Restore Cost (MRC) functionality. This means that the user restores less data from the cloud. As a result, cloud backup costs are vastly reduced compared to other backup and restore vendors.

 

File and folder backup

Linux file backup in Bacula is very easy and flexible. Bacula will always work with complete files while backing up Linux servers including permission, owner and group attributes. This Linux backup tool will check whether the file has changed or not and, if true, will send the changed file to storage daemon. Using Bacula’s powerful file backup utility that include Global Endpoint Deduplication you’ll be able to save network bandwidth because you won’t send identical files if you don’t want to backup them again.

 

Full and incremental backup

Linux incremental backup is supported in Bacula Enterprise. Using Progressive Virtual Full technology users can syndicate incremental backups into the new full backup. This sophisticated capability save storage space and backup time dramatically while improving your Linux backup efficiency.

With Bacula Enterprise you get the guarantee that the backups of Linux servers are carried out efficiently and completely complying with all the requirements that you have and adapting to the new ones that are generated, offering security, consistency, integrity and availability of the information.

Further help on Bacula’s Linux backup solution:

  • What’s used frequently together with Linux? Take a look on Oracle, SAPVMware and Hyper-V backup solutions from Bacula.
  • See our backup and recovery blog for the latest product releases and updates, case studies and other interesting news.