Tape Backup Software Solution from Bacula Enterprise

Bacula’s tape backup software with its unique architecture means it works with practically all types of tapes and tape drives. 

Bacula Enterprise is the king of tape backup. And despite some vendors stating that ‘tape is dead’, tape backup is actually a rapidly developing and key technology in enterprise backup. Backing up to tape brings increasing performance and capacity, while lowering cost per GB of data stored – as well as many enhanced security options. Backup to tape portability and ease of migration to other locations, remote or local, are important elements in the implementation of disaster recovery and high availability environments.

Many system administrators and IT directors discuss the pros and cons of  backing up to both tape or disk. However, a balanced backup and recovery strategy typically brings disk and tape backup solutions together. One of the examples of using tape backup solutions is transferring the 60-180 days disk backups to (lower cost) tapes or even to low-cost disk and then tape (D2D2T).

Since its beginning in the year 2000, Bacula has used backup to tape as one of its fundamental features, embracing many different types of existing and emerging tape backup hardware.

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Exceptional backup to tape compatibility with advanced options has always been a #1 priority for Bacula Enterprise. Its tape backup solutions are completely agnostic when it comes to drives, autoloaders and library models. This means that an exceptionally large range of tape management systems are available to the Bacula user. One of the advantages of Bacula’s architecture is that, as long as the hardware in question can be accessed via mt/mtx commands, Bacula will be able to utilize it. This feature allows tape backup server to reuse tape units that can not be recognized by other backup solutions.

Bacula Enterprise’s tape backup software implementation and production work is very simple and scalable; it doesn’t require additional licenses for custom configuration and scalability which results in significant savings of operational costs, without the surcharges for use of agent and new devices. This typically reduces costs drastically for the user.

Bacula Enterprise has fully integrated tape backup in its core architecture. This includes autoloaders and Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL’s). One of the key differentiators of Bacula Enterprise over other enterprise-level backup solutions is its compatibility with an especially wide range of drives, tape libraries and autoloaders that include different types of technologies, such as DDS, DLT, LTO, etc. and different manufacturers of the tape backup industry.

Bacula Enterprise also offers:

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• How to execute tape backup? The technical guide in our blog.
• Backup training program is available in different locations, depending on the Certified Bacula Systems Training Center you choose.