Bacula Enterprise integrates the core features from Bacula community projects with specific advanced technologies to create one of the most powerful and stable enterprise-class  backup & restore solutions available. It includes exclusive features as well as specific plugins to modernize your data recovery strategy, increase your efficiency, and significantly drive costs down.

Main Features Summary

• Snapshot technology and Snapshot Management to get a read-only copy of the data set frozen at a point in time which allows applications to continue writing their data

• Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) enabling files to be transparently encrypted to protect confidential data from attackers with physical access to the computer

• Differential, Full, Incremental, and ‘virtual-full’ backup and data recovery functionality

• Global Endpoint deduplication™ (deduplication from the client to the storage) capabilities to greatly save hardware costs and minimize network bandwidth utilization

• Native cloud integration – via S3, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud interface

• Progressive Virtual Full capability for massive time-saving

• VMware client-free support plugin featuring Single File Restore for VMware

• Storage Daemon to Storage Daemon (SD2SD) for replication capabilities, with deduplication

• Storage Daemon on Windows systems

• Storage Daemon calls File Daemon (Firewall)

• Storage Daemon Reporting allows to retrieve a range of information such as available disk space and disk usage information

• REST API to define, easily and with a standard programming tool, new services for MSPs’ customers

• BCloud Service, advanced self service backup for hosting companies, MSPs, IaaS and BaaS providers

• Bacula Enterprise Edition database specific structure for speed improvement, more information stored and allowing 10 000 servers per director

• Communication line compression, allowing users to divide by 3 the volume of data transmitted across communication lines

• All drive plugin to automatically generate a Fileset including all drives in a Windows environment

• Filesystems deduplication (Aligned Volume Format)

• Directory Server plugin (OpenLDAP and Active Directory)

• Bacula Microsoft VSS plugin with support for MS SQL Server and MS Exchange

• Bacula MSSQL VDI Plugin

• Bare Metal Recovery plugin for Linux and Windows systems (with UEFI and EFI support)

• NDMP tool

• VMware client-free tool

• Red Hat Virtualization tool

• KVM tool

• Hyper-V tool

• Xen tool

• Promox tool

• SAN Shared Tape Library Module

• Oracle tool

• SAP tool

• SAP HANA tool

• MySQL tool

• PostgreSQL tool

• Delta tool

• Incremental Accelerator for NetApp

• BWeb Management Suite to configure, deploy, analyze and manage your Backup & Restore infrastructure

• Client-Initiated Backup

• Restart incomplete jobs

• Stop and restart jobs

• Bandwidth limitation

• Always back up a file

• Backup and restore clients of any type ensuring that all (and many types of) attributes of files are properly saved and restored

• Multi-volume backups and data recovery supported

• A full comprehensive SQL standard database of all files backed up. This permits online viewing of files saved on any particular volume, and advanced reporting capabilities.

• Automatic pruning of the database (removal of old records), thus simplifying database administration.

• Compatibility with most popular SQL databases. Plugins currently exist for MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL

• Built-in Job scheduler

• Multi-threaded implementation

• A comprehensive and extensible configuration file for each daemon

• Multiple jobs can read the same disk Volume simultaneously

• Virtual Full enhancements

• BSys-alert script (predictive support)

• Support for Windows mount point snapshots

• Improved cancellation of jobs while despooling

• Reduction of lock contention in the Storage daemo