Bacula4Hosts and OnApp Launch Incremental Backup and Restore for Cloud Providers

Bacula4Hosts
has partnered with OnApp Limited to
release a multi-layer, incremental backup and restore capability for
the OnApp cloud platform.

This release of the Bacula4Hosts
suite gives OnApp cloud providers and their customers an
integrated self-service backup, restore and download capability for
whole or granular file architectures, databases and database table
sets. It has also announced updated pricing and a simplified
licensing structure for OnApp cloud providers, and an automatic
migration scheme for companies already using OnApp and Bacula4Hosts.

Cloud providers can add incremental
backup and restore to any hypervisor platform supported by OnApp,
including Xen, KVM and VMware, and select any combination of
hypervisors and/or VMs for inclusion in the incremental backup
scheme. Bacula4Hosts complements the VM snapshot/template and
scheduled backup capabilities. It backups data that changes,
providing near-CDP and reducing network bandwidth and disk space
required for backups. Data can be restored on demand from any restore
point.

"The strategic partnership
delivers a much-needed solution for service providers, resellers and
end-users looking for a file/database level backup and restore
platform for VMs – fast and reliable, yet still offering granular
control and customizable API access," said Bacula4Hosts
founder and CEO, Andrew Rouchotas. "We’ve also simplified the
licensing structure and pricing for OnApp customers, and introduced a
fully automatic migration for existing Bacula4Hosts clients to make
the transition as seamless as possible."

"We designed the OnApp platform
to be as flexible and extensible as possible, and our partnership
with Bacula4Hosts adds some great new capabilities for OnApp
customers," said OnApp CEO, Ditlev Bredahl. "Incremental
backup is a valuable feature for cloud end users, and the
Bacula4Hosts platform just makes it really simple for service
providers to offer that capability to their users. Like OnApp, it’s a
technology designed for this market, and with some great pricing I’m
looking forward to seeing what kinds of services the OnApp community
can now take to market."

The solution enhances VM/Hypervisor
backup control with real-time polling of connected OnApp installs,
for visibility of all hypervisor zones and their respective VMs.
Granular backup selection allows for the customer to pay only for
hypervisors in enabled zones, and only for enabled VMs governed by
those respective hypervisors. All of this functionality is
feature-selectable and may be offered through the Bacula4Hosts API
and/or a full range of pre-built modules made available for
third-party billing systems enabling full self-service, end user
restore capability.

Bacula4Hosts has introduced a special
licensing structure for OnApp products, of $8/month/OnApp
hypervisor node and $3/month/VM hosted on each node, with
high volume licenses available for $1/month/VM.

Along with this licensing plans comes the ability to convert existing
per-VM Bacula4Hosts licenses and backup data to the platform and
pricing tiers. Any full server licenses are transitioned to the
Hypervisor+VM model upon connecting any OnApp install, and its
respective hypervisor zone(s), to the Bacula4Hosts architecture.