Announcing Bacula Enterprise Edition 10. Expanded capabilities for Xen, Proxmox and Self-Service Backup.

Bacula Enterprise Edition 10 brings expanded capabilities for Xen, Proxmox and Self-Service Backup. It delivers a range of unique features for IT departments, data centers, MSPs and hosting providers to:

• Add Xen and Proxmox to their automated backup and recovery virtual environments
• Benefit from improved MSSQL backup and recovery integration, to add to the database integration portfolio of MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP HANA and many others
• Expand on their services to their end-users
• Delegate backup and recovery tasks more easily

Do you need a wider range of features that bring more value?

Today’s IT environments can get complicated, and their managers are required to constantly develop, transform and innovate in order to remain competitive and attractive to customers. Bacula Enterprise Edition 10 offers a number of unique and convenient tools to help provide as many options as possible , a including massive range of virtual machine and database compatibility, advanced deduplication and compression tools, state of the art security built into every layer, snapshot management and a range of both GUI and text interfaces. All of this – and much, much more, is available with Bacula’s incredibly flexibly licensing, and without charging by data volume.

Xen Backup and Recovery: Ease and Speed

Bacula Systems’ technology for backing up and recovering data from Xen servers brings never-seen-before speed and convenience to Xen users, all designed to make your life easier and with no intermediate steps required. It is part of Bacula’s VM Performance Suite that also has advanced technologies for backing up VMware, Hyper V, KVM and Proxmox.

Bacula Enterprise Editions’ native integration with Xen provides virtual machine bare metal recovery, while its ability to back up data at the guest level simplifies data protection of critical applications. Backup can be performed for a guest VM in any power state (running or halted).

Bacula uses the Xen Server API to access and backup virtual machines. It brings a broad range of features, capabilities and automation to the Xen environment:

• Snapshot-based online backup of any guest VM
• VSS-based guest snapshots for quiescing VSS-based applications
• Full image-level backup
• Ability to restore complete virtual machine image
• Ability to restore VM archive (.xva) to alternate directory
• Full restore job logs

BCloud Service

BCloud Service is a simple 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. IT Departments and MSPs can use BCloud Service to offer self-service backup, by enabling their own customers to easily create and manage their own backup jobs, restore files, do LDAP authentication and much more. It has specific functionalities designed for Hosting and Cloud companies, and comprehensive information specifically about BCloud Service can be found in this whitepaper.

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 that limit the size and scope of a customer’s self-service backup and recovery.

Some of BCloud Service’s features are:

• Display of amount of data used / available
• Schedule-setting and scheduled intervals
• Monitoring of backup and restore jobs, including Job Name, Level, Start Time, Duration, Job Files, Job Bytes, Average Speed, Errors and Status
• Drag and drop file restore
• Client Protection Status (Client Host Status Information)
• Backup and restore history, grouped by client