Bats in the Data Center

Bacula is a powerful open source backup solution for large environments that offers automation, extension modules, and commercial support.

Harald Däubler

A network of universities (Universities of Ulm, Constance, and Tübingen, Germany) was looking for a new backup solution, but the requirements were tough. The new solution not only had to offer a simple and predictable license model, it also had to cope with billions of files and petabytes of data in all kinds of international character sets on thousands of computers with all kinds of operating systems at several locations in the country. Open and documented formats and interfaces were essential to ensure permanent, at least read-only, access to the data, and it had to allow the continued use of existing tape drives, including a large tape library. In the end, the people in charge opted for a proof of concept based on Bacula Enterprise Edition [1] by Switzerland’s Bacula…

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