Advanced XCP-ng backup and recovery solutions

Easy and powerful XCP-ng backup software with Bacula Enterprise 

Bacula Systems’ technology for XCP-ng backup and disaster recovery offers unprecedented speed and convenience to XCP-ng users, streamlining the process of backing up these VMs without the need for intermediate steps.

Bacula Enterprise’s seamless integration with XCP-ng enables bare metal recovery for virtual machines and simplifies the protection of critical application data at the guest level. Backups can be performed on guest VMs regardless of their power state, whether running or halted, and Single File Recovery is also supported.

Bacula leverages the Xen Server API to access and back up virtual machines, delivering extremely high security levels, a wide array of features, capabilities, and automation options to the XCP-ng environment, including Incremental and Differential backup levels. A comprehensive overview of Bacula Enterprise’s capabilities with XCP-ng is provided below:

Bacula’s XCP-ng backup features

  • Snapshot-based online backup of any guest VM
  • Differential and Incremental backup levels
  • Single File Recovery
  • VSS-based guest snapshots for quiescing VSS-based applications
  • Full image-level backup
  • Ability to restore complete virtual machine image
  • Ability to restore VM archive to alternate directory
  • Uses raw disk images and ova configuration
  • Supports restore of old backup formats
  • Full restore job logs

Bacula also provides helpful info regarding available XCP-ng resources, which typically simplifies backup configuration and restore operations, such as:

  • List of guest VM name-labels
  • List of guest VM UUIDs
  • List of XCP-ng Storage Repositories

Benefits of the XCP-ng backup solution from Bacula 

It is recommended to have a XCP-ng backup strategy that goes beyond the use of scripts at the command line level or shell, as this does not offer alternatives or benefits such as:

  • Granularity while using XCP-ng VM backup and restores
  • Execution of different XCP-ng VM backup levels
  • Ease of XCP-ng VM data recovery
  • Scheduling of backup for XCP-ng
  • advanced ransoware detection and many other malware detection tools

Bacula Enterprise enables the management and execution of XCP-ng and XenServer VM backup configured in diverse environments, whether physical, remote or in the cloud.

Bacula is currently the world leader in XCP-ng backup
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