Bacula
Bacula is a professional Open Source Backup tool way beyond similar softwares.
A Step Ahead
Bacula is a software with great capacity and free that acts backing up of all the content of your company, including but not limited to files and e-mails. With Bacula is possible to do the backup in a centralized way from different servers or devices connected to your private network or to the internet, using a client/server structure. In the same way, Bacula allows to simultaneously work with multiple storage devices, also connected to your network or reachable through Internet, in the cloud. The storage devices can be Hard-Disks, tapes, DVDs, CD-ROMs, pen-drives and others.
Scripts before and after the backup
Bacula has the option to run multiple scripts to prepare and finalize each task. Corporative environments have some specific rules before the execution of a backup. In some situations, before a backup is done it’s necessary to execute some security, performance or viability procedures, i.e. dump a database. To deal with this kind of scenario you can set Bacula to run a script in the client before it starts the backup. Using the same function, after the task is concluded Bacula can run a script that can, for example, remove the database dump.
Open Source and multiple platforms
Bacula is lincensed with GPL which reduces the costs linked with licenses and software maintenance are sensibly reduced and make it customizable, adapting it to different needs. Beyond that, Bacula supports multiple platforms and are able to backup remotely devices like Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows, Mac Os X, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Tru64, AIX and IRIX. Because of those handy resources, Bacula has been extensively used among big companies, public or private, in Brazil. Not only because it’s strategic alignment of open software, but also, and mainly, because of it’s huge capacity.
More than “Record, protect, recover”
Bacula is a powerful tool suitcase that provides to the network administrator the possibility to go beyond backup management. The network administrator have in his hand such as a graphic interface, the choice to encrypt data when recorded in the storage, compaction options to boost performance, scheduling independent of the clients and types of backups, including directories or files exclusion with the possibility to use regular expressions, GFS Backup scheme, Backup from multiple databases, virtual machines, e-mail servers, file servers and others.