ZFS - Total Integration with Bacula Enterprise

Announcing Bacula’s native integration and interoperability with the ZFS file system.

This latest enhancement empowers organizations with seamless, high-performance backup and recovery capabilities specifically optimized for ZFS-based infrastructures.

The integration of ZFS into Bacula Enterprise enables enterprises and high-performance computing (HPC) environments to take full advantage of ZFS’s advanced storage management features while leveraging Bacula’s robust, scalable, and highly secure backup and disaster recovery capabilities.

Bacula continues to set the standard for reliability, security, and exceptionally high performance in backup and recovery. Its new native ZFS integration further expands Bacula’s customers’ ability to protect and manage their data in the most efficient way possible. By enabling seamless, high-speed backup and reliable restore operations for ZFS environments, Bacula helps organizations reduce complexity, improve storage efficiency, and maintain strict security and compliance requirements.

This is one of a series of important announcements Bacula will be making in the high performance file systems space in the coming weeks.

Are you new to Bacula? You may not be aware of its exceptionally high security levels, its remarkable scalability, its agnostic approach to storage and its broad technology fit, to provide single-pane-of-glass coverage to even the most diverse IT environments. Contact Bacula now to find out how powerful it is – either on prem or in the cloud!

Key Benefits of Bacula’s ZFS Integration:

• Snapshot-Based Backups: Bacula leverages ZFS snapshots to enable efficient, low-latency backups without impacting system performance.
• Speed: Bacula’s ZFS capabilities include a fast incremental accelerator for massive file systems and big data volume – all done automatically.
• Workload Efficiency: Bacula integrates with ZFS’s diff feature to quickly backup only necessary/modified files, without needing to scan the entire file system.
• Advanced Data Protection: Bacula complements its ZFS capabilities with configurable compression, checksum verification, advanced encryption technology, comprehensive ransomware protection, air-gapped architectures, highly flexible immutable storage options and many other highly customizable data protection features for compliance-driven industries.
• Seamless Scalability: Optimized for large-scale environments, Bacula’s ZFS integration provides ultra-fast backup of snapshot differences of massive datasets.
• Cost-Efficiency: Organizations can significantly lower their storage costs by leveraging Bacula’s advanced deduplication and compression capabilities in conjunction with Bacula’s efficient data management features.

Further help:

• Bacula Enterprise integrates not only with ZFS. See our full feature list.
• Training for ZFS backups is available in different locations, depending on the Certified Bacula Systems Training Center you choose.