The Modern Tape Backup Software. Bacula Enterprise Tape Backup Solutions

Enterprise tape backup software from Bacula Systems. Reliable tape backup solutions for Windows and Linux with broad device support.

Bacula Enterprise’s unique architecture means that it works (completely) with practically all types of tapes and tape drives.

Tape backup software has been used for a long time as one of the fundamental strategies for information protection in enterprise organizations. Despite some vendors stating that ‘tape is dead’, tape backup still continues to be a key technology in enterprise backup. The main reason for this is the sheer reliability of the backup tape. Continuing backup to tape modernization brings increasing performance and capacity, while lowering cost per GB of data stored. This has also allowed to obtain longer periods of validity of the stored data. 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 both backup to tape and disk. However, a balanced backup and recovery strategy 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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Bacula Enterprise is based on the Bacula community project (bacula.org) which was created as a tape-oriented backup software since its conception as one of the main media types. Supporting backup to tape has always been a #1 priority for the first corporate-level clients. Bacula Enterprise tape backup software is enterprise-ready. Our tape backup solutions are completely agnostic when it comes to drives, autoloaders and library models. This means that a large range of tape management systems are available to the Bacula user. The advantage of Bacula’s architecture is that, as long as the hardware 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 could not be recognized by newer 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.

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.

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• How to execute tape backup with Bacula Enterprise? The technical guide to setup tape library from Bacula professionals in our blog.
• Bacula Enterprise supports 25+ OSes. See our most often Windows server backup software and Linux server backup solution.
• Backup training program is available in different locations, depending on the Certified Bacula Systems Training Center you choose.