Cloud and Virtualization

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The following article presents information on Bacula cloud and virtualization (Bacula Community and Bacula Enterprise).

Most of the systems in the IT world can be backed up following an agent-based strategy, where the File Daemon is deployed on the target host, independently from the underlying platform.

However, Bacula also offers a comprehensive solution to protect Virtual Machines or Containers in agent-less mode and in a consistent way through the usa of snapshot techniques. These technologies are covered through specific Plugins. The main Virtualization platforms in the market are covered:

• Hypervisors

  • VMware

  • Hyper-V

  • Nutanix AHV

  • Xen

  • Proxmox

  • KVM

  • Red Hat Virtualization/oVirt

• Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

  • Azure VM

• Container Environments

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes Clusters

  • Red Hat OpenShift

See also

Previous articles:

• Core Features

• Security Features

• Storage Destinations

• NAS and External Protection

• Endpoint Features

Next articles:

• Databases

• Supported Applications

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