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Bacula Systems Releases Linux Bare Metal Restore Feature

By Carolyn J Dawson
TMCnet Contributor

Bacula Systems is one of the leading global providers of commercial open source backup and restore software. The company recently announced the availability of its Linux bare metal restore feature. This new feature will now add fast and complete disaster recovery capability to its Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 and also goes on to complement Bacula Systems' existing bare metal recovery for Windows systems.

The Linux Bare Metal Restore capability is now being made available along with Bacula Enterprise Edition for a small additional cost. Some of the key features of the newly upgraded Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 are: BWeb Enterprise Management Center to manage multiple data centers; scalability up to thousands of servers and clients; modern, modular and multi-threaded design; exceptionally stable network backup and data verification in large IT environments; advanced levels of security built in every layer; Windows compatibilities such as registry, systemstate, Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint; backup to disk, tape, and robotic media libraries; high availability in a clustered environment; file level deduplication; MySQL and Postgres database compatibility; improved Microsoft (News - Alert) VSS functionality; Windows bare metal recovery; Bacula Systems Support Services and Long term support for Enterprise Edition 4.0 - minimum of 4 years. For those who are interested, there is a free trial version on offer.

In a release, Kern Sibbald CTO, Bacula Systems, said, "Bacula Systems offers the most scalable open source backup product in the market today, and frees the enterprise from vendor lock-in. Our offering gives you all the advantages of a quality product without being forced to pay the outrageous licensing fees typical of today's proprietary backup vendors."

Bacula has now crossed the 1.5 million download milestone and an even more organizations are choosing to use Bacula Systems' Subscription services and enterprise-class solution to revamp their IT environment and reduce their expenses. ScanNet, Denmark's largest commercial web hosting and domain provider is one of the companies that use Bacula. Tove Kristensen, Director of IT, ScanNet said that “We needed to find a highly scalable product with modern architecture, that reduced costs and was fast enough to fit our backup windows, so Bacula was the best backup product we could use."