Bacula: Red Hat OpenShift Snapshot Addition to Backup and Recovery Solution

Accelerating its role in backup and recovery for large enterprises and managed services providers, Bacula Systems SA announced the inclusion of Snapshot capability to its module for protecting Red Hat OpenShift environments.

Bacula Enterprise is a a broad enterprise backup and recovery software to offer an automated, backup of OpenShift environments, including volume snapshots. The company’s module for OpenShift backup and recovery is certified by Red Hat. It follows the firm‘s anouncement in December of complete backup and recovery for Docker containers and Kubernetes Cluster configurations, including their persistent data.

Some of integrated OpenShift module include:

• Safeguarding states of OpenShift clusters

• CSI snapshots for Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) for backup, data replication and migration

• Recovery of applications and persistent data

• Restore Persistent Volumes data to local directory

• Fast redeployment of a cluster’s resources

• Saving amended configurations for complete security, and restoring to exact same state

• Saving configurations for use with other operations

• Command line and Web GUI for single view backup and restore management of entire IT environments

“Bacula continues to push the envelope of container backup for IT departments by creating more flexibility and choices for hybrid cloud, virtual and container deployments as well as serving an especially wide range of conventional physical IT environments. The result is more efficiency, lower implementation risk, and extremely high levels of security and customer satisfaction,” said Frank Barker, CEO.