ISC 2024: Bacula Adds Features for HPC Backup and Recovery

Expanding its leadership in high security backup and recovery for HPC and demanding IT environments, at ISC 2024 Bacula Systems SA announced new features designed for HPC customers.

The company also announces partnerships with many of the in­dustry’s storage providers.

“Bacula is the only solution capable of handling billions of files in extremely high-throughput applications. Bacula’s participation in the ISC Hamburg exhibition demonstrates its full commitment to helping HPC customers save time and considerable costs,” said Gopal RajGuru, CEO.

Enhancing the company’s broad storage and cloud compatibility, a new lock function has been added to align the immutable status of backup data with the backup retention configured in Bacula platform. The firm’s Cloud Storage Class is also configurable in Azure, Oracle and Google. This allows precise control over where to store each backup set, using any kind of criteria, directly from Bacula without touching the destination cloud storage configuration.

File Auto Split diagram

The company helps HPC customers automate complex tasks with a new Large Backup File Split feature, which speeds the back up of large numbers of files by splitting the work­load into concurrent backup processes in a simple, smart and automatic way. This saves HPC customers significant amounts of time for very large datasets, and Bacula automatically manages the backup to any file-server or NAS.

“Bacula also reduces the possibility of human error by eliminating the need for a configura­tion update process. This is particularly useful when many users create complex folder struc­tures with lots of different files where the distribution of the data varies dynamically in an unpredictable way” said Jorge Gea, CTO.

Partnerships:
The company also announced a number of new strategic partnerships with the high-performance and secure storage specialists to build on its growing momentum in the HPC industry, including:

ExaGrid: ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides Tiered Backup Storage with a disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. Its scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift up­grades and product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers security and is a 2-tiered backup storage ap­proach with a non-network-facing tier, delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks. Combined with the power of Bacula Enterprise, ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage provides a backup solution for HPC organizations with high performance, security, and scalability at the best price.

Storj: Bacula has launched a strategic partnership with Storj Labs, Inc., which delivers faster cloud object storage at 90% less cost than AWS S3 while reducing data’s carbon footprint. Storj achieves this by leveraging unused global storage space to create a highly-secure global network, eliminating the need for costly data centers and providing enterprise-level durability and high performance without data replication. With Bacula and Storj, businesses save up to 90% on cloud storage with increased security and lower costs.

Colby Wineger, CRO, Storj, said, “Storj is very pleased to partner with Bacula to lower customers’ costs and upgrade enterprise data backup and recovery. Together we help to protect organizations from the problems of downtime and data breaches with a cost-effective approach and lighting-fast downloads.”

SoftIron: SoftIron Ltd. is a private cloud solution provider. Its purpose-built hardware is designed, developed and manufactured in house, and it is a manufacturer to offer auditable provenance. HyperCloud by SoftIron allows organizations to build a private cloud on-premises that deploys, manages and consumes like public cloud. HyperCloud provides the elasticity of cloud in a solution that is fast and simple to deploy, driving extreme agility. Combined with Bacula, SoftIron’s solution is for scalable backup and recovery.

Backblaze: Backblaze, Inc. makes it easy to store, use, and protect data for various industries, including HPC customers. Its B2 Cloud Storage provides an infinitely scalable foundation for researchers, businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals to build applications, host content, manage media, backup and archive data, and more. Backblaze and Bacula customers enjoy no minimum retention penalties, no egress fees, highly performant and secure cloud storage at lower prices. With over 3 billion gigabytes of data storage under management, the company currently works with more than 500,000 customers in over 175 countries.

Wasabi Technologies: Recognized as a technology industry’s fasting growing companies, Wasabi Technologies, LLC is on a mission to store the world’s data by making cloud storage affordable, predictable and secure. With Wasabi, visionary companies gain the freedom to use their data whenever they like without being hit with unpredictable fees or vendor lock-in. Instead, they’re free to build best-of-breed solutions with the industry’s fastest-growing ecosystem of independent cloud application partners. Customers and partners all over the world trust Wasabi to help them put their data to work so they can unlock their full potential.