Thursday, September 24, 2009

Bacula - Open Source Backup

Open Source BackupBacula is an open source network backup solution that is written in C++ and is relatively easy to use while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files. Bacula is basically an enterprise ready backup software that permits you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.

The latest stable release of Bacula is 3.0.2 which supports Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOSX, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Tru64, IRIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows backup clients, and a range of professional backup devices including tape libraries. Administrators and operators can configure the system via a command line console, GUI or web interface; its back-end is a catalog of information stored by MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.

Bacula supports technologies & networks such as:
  • CRAM-MD5
  • Cyclic redundancy check
  • GZIP
  • Large file support
  • Logical volume management
  • MD5/SHA
  • POSIX ACL
  • Public key infrastructure
  • TCP/IP
  • Transport layer security
  • Unicode/UTF-8
  • Volume snapshot service

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