Bacula VMware Backup Solutions. Protect your VMs with VMware Backup Software.

Industry-leading offsite VMware Backup Tools for vSphere and ESXi.

Bacula Systems’ VMware backup solutions are used to perform backups and especially fast data recovery of your VMware ESXi hosts using vSphere with Bacula Enterprise Edition.

Our VMware backup software also provides fast ESXi virtual machine bare metal recovery and especially quick Single File Restore which is reducing the time of re-installation and recovery of the virtualization host in case of any failure.

This VMware backup tool also enables users to backup VMware ESXi at guest level. It can work either over a SAN or via Network Block Device. Our VMware backup solutions integrate VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT) technology to ensure that only the blocks that were modified since the initial Full, or the previous Differential or Incremental backup are relayed to the current Differential or Incremental vSphere backup stream, providing markedly more efficient backups, lighter network load and optimization of the disk space.

Using our VMware backup software together with Bacula's Progressive Virtual Full technology dramatically reduces disk storage utilization and lowers the I/O operations as well.

This Single File Restore capability for Bacula's VMware backup solution comes with industry-leading speed and convenience.  This is done from any of the management consoles with a few clicks in the web environment or GUI by indicating some criteria or parameters from CLI.

 

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Key Benefits of VMware Backup Solution from Bacula Systems:

• Reduction of the VMware VM recovery execution times to the same or another hardware in the case of bare metal recovery
• Flexible management of the onsite and offsite locations where VMware ESXi backups are made which may include local disks, NAS, SAN, tapes, autochanger, cloud, etc..
• Backups of the images from the host master instead of the backup of VMware virtual machines which facilitates the administration and configuration of the backups, as well as optimizing the management of the  agents (however you can make VMware backup and recovery from the VMs as well)
• Backup compression which decreases the use of resources used for offsite storage and network
• Encryption of the information copied in the VMware backup volumes as well as in the transmission channel during the backup and recovery operations
• The use of deduplication for backup operations brings significant benefits in performance since only the necessary objects that have been modified are copied
• Easy and agile implementation of VMware client backup scheduling with the most advanced operation and administration options

Further speed and productivity improvements while doing VMware ESXI backup are typically possible with Bacula Systems’ unique Global Endpoint Deduplication, along with a spectrum of special VMware utilities for advanced control. Global Endpoint Deduplication is a high performance technology that optimizes data at the block level, then stores just the new blocks – using references in Bacula volumes to blocks that are kept in the Deduplication engine. This VMware VM backup technology saves significant storage space and also network bandwidth during vSphere backup; this works principally by only sending (via the File Daemon) unknown blocks to the Storage Daemon. VMware backup solution is available with our innovative Progressive Virtual Full technology allowing users to consolidate incremental VMware backups and create Virtual Full. This VMware VM backup technology saves resources on the client side by getting data from local storage, and putting everything together to build the new ‘Full’, locally.

 

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Bacula Enterprise Edition’s file level recovery for VMware delivers user-friendly rapid recovery combined with usability. Locating and restoring individual files is so quick and convenient, life has never been easier for a sysadmin. Across complete physical environments, from virtual machines, to entire servers, apps, specific folders or files: even granular application objects, this high performance backup of VMware VMs combined with Bacula Enterprise scales up for advanced backup and data restore in even the largest data centers. All delivered with a cost efficiency that is second to none.

Single File Restore for VMware VM backup software becomes particularly useful when you need to restore from a backup of VMware virtual machine a critical data file that has become corrupted or lost for some reason. Want to avoid restoring from the backup of the entire VMware virtual machine? Frequently, recovery cases only require single files to be restored from a backup of VMware VM. In these cases, you can now save yourself a lot of effort and time – and just recover the individual files that you need from VM backups.

Bacula Enterprise performs the check of VMware backup and recovery operations. This is done during the execution phase or by configuring and running verification jobs that allow these checks to be carried out.

What are the advantages obtained with the verification of VMware backups? Although there are multiple advantages, the main one is to validate the consistency of the backed up data since it can be affected by various factors that decrease its usefulness such as physical disk errors, logical software errors or changes in the permissions of the objects.

• Do you run other applications inside VMware virtual machines? Take a look at our database backup solutions.
• Also using Microsoft virtualization except VMware virtual machines? Take a look at our backup of Hyper V.
• View Bacula Enterprise Edition's corporate backup and recovery features.