Database backup software solutions and tools

Database Backup Software Solutions from Bacula Systems

It is crucial to backup a database correctly in an IT infrastructure and meeting backup policy needs is often critical. With its database management system (DBMS) tools, Bacula Systems brings industry-leading high security technology that sets the standard for enterprise-grade database backup software solutions far beyond its competitors. Bacula’s database technology is natively-integrated for especially high performance and additional features. Bacula Enterprise enables all businesses to take advantage of its especially powerful database backup tools. System administrators looking for a robust, high-end enterprise database backup software should start here. And where ease and speed is required, these database backup tools also provide the answer for those system administrators working to tight deadlines. Remember: even within the most robust IT infrastructure, having a database go down is inevitable. Each time a database fails or is down, your customer’s satisfaction is jeopardized.

Your database backup strategy with Bacula Enterprise can be extremely flexible. Database backups can be scheduled with special mechanism. It is also possible to execute batch and SQL scripts before and after database backup jobs actually start or end.

Our database backup software is media- and storage-agnostic. You can backup databases to any location: local or network folders, NAS or SAN devices or any cloud provider.

Compression, encryption and deduplication technologies used in your database backup strategy can help you save storage capacity, lower network bandwidth and decrease time for database backup execution. Full, incremental and transactional log backups support ensure the best use of our database backup software.

Our database backup tools support both hot and cold backup modes which allow you to perform backups with no service interruption and ensure data consistency while doing database backups.

No speciﬁc knowledge is required while taking care of data and metadata, such as users, rights, roles, etc. At the same time, comprehensive and advanced customization options are immediately available to the user, providing the needed ﬂexibility for the most demanding professional environments.

Bacula Systems oﬀers many different backup tools so that you can backup databases exactly the way you need to. Below are just a few examples of these technologies.

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PostgreSQL database backup tools

The PostgreSQL database backup tools are designed to simplify the database backup procedures of your PostgreSQL cluster(s); the backup administrator does not need to know the internals of PostgreSQL database backup strategies or write complex scripts.

The database backup tools automatically take care of backing up essential information such as conﬁguration, user definitions and table spaces.

The PostgreSQL database backup tools support both “Dump” and Point In Time Recovery (PITR) database backup strategies. Using Bacula Systems’ unique Late Data Inclusion (LDI) technology, this tool eﬀectively captures data up to the point of ﬁnishing the backup, therefore minimizing the risk of data loss. This is an industry-leading advantage over other vendors’ database backup solutions.

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MySQL database backup software

The MySQL database backup solution is designed to simplify the backup of your MySQL server(s); the backup administrator does not need to know the internals of MySQL database backup strategies or how to write complex scripts. The database backup software is highly conﬁgurable and will automatically backup essential information such as conﬁguration and user definitions. The MySQL database backup software supports both “Dump” and “Binary” backup strategies.

The Bacula Systems MySQL database backup tool enables the administrator to choose between Dump or Binary for faster and larger backups. The MySQL tool takes care of the MySQL log ﬁles when using the Point In Time Recovery (PITR) feature.

Note: Bacula offers one of the fastest recovery times for high-transaction-rate MySQL databases in the industry, via its native integration of Percona Tools. Find out more.

MariaDB database backup software

Bacula Enterprise’s MariaDB module is used to make both backup and recovery processes for MariaDB data and/or applications much more secure, faster and easier, as well as more efficient. There are multiple different backup and recovery approaches that Bacula Enterprise has for MariaDB data, offering a combination of high reliability, scalability, and performance. Bacula’s MariaDB module was built in a very specific fashion that allows it to be used by any backup administrator – even one without any knowledge of complex scripts or specific MariaDB nuances or operations.

MS SQL database backup solutions

The Bacula Enterprise tool for MS SQL Server is an advanced database backup solution for one or multiple MS SQL databases with industry leading features:

Full database backup strategy which saves the database’s ﬁles and the transaction log ﬁles to provide a complete solution against media failure
Diﬀerential backups to capture only the data that has changed since the last Full.
Server includes integrated strategy to upgrade a Diﬀerential backup into a Full if required
Incremental backups via the Transaction Log backup. When conﬁgured with the appropriate model, this method enable a “Point In Time Recovery” mode
Master Database backup for MS SQL conﬁguration backup.

The Bacula Enterprise tool for MS SQL Server is able to restore data in several ways including “Point In Time Recovery” mode. The database backup and restore process then allows the following scenarios:

Restore database backup ﬁles to disk
Restore original database backup
Restore database backup with a new name
Restore database backup with a new name and ﬁle relocation

Oracle Database backup solutions

Bacula’s Oracle database backup solutions are designed to simplify the backup procedures of your Oracle database instance(s) with extremely high levels of security. To make things even easier, Oracle database administrators can take advantage of the option to use RMAN commands in order to make backing up Oracle databases even easier and more convenient.

Besides ease and speed, the Oracle database backup solutions provide important features including restoring your database(s) to any point in time or being able to ﬁlter objects during backup or restore; all of them being available using two different database backup strategies: “Dump” and Point In Time Recovery (PITR) through its tight integration with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN).

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SAP HANA database backup strategy

Bacula Enterprise’s is now integrated with SAP HANA. This integration allows SAP HANA users to enhance SAP HANA database backup software and manage data in a more sophisticated manner.

Features of SAP HANA database backup solutions and tools from Bacula Systems include backup, recovery, migration, clone & replication of databases without being penalized for increased data volume.

Sybase Backup and Recovery

The Bacula Enterprise Sybase backup and recovery is very effective and easy to use. One of the many advantages of this tools is that the system administrator does not need to have knowledge about the internals of Sybase backup techniques, nor write complex scripts. It supports Point In Time Recovery (PITR) with Archive API backup and restore techniques. This Sybase module is able to do incremental and differential backup of the database at a block level. It is available on 32 and 64-bit Linux platforms supported by Sybase, and supports Sybase ASE 12.5, 15.5, 15.7 and 16.0.

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Further help on database backup and restore strategy:

How to backup database with Bacula Enterprise? The detailed guide from Bacula Systems.
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