Overview

A global media and entertainment company offering TV, film, streaming and gaming services.

Challenge

  • The client was looking for the backup software with a more cost-effective licensing model in the light of growing amount of data;
  • The client preferred open source solutions with the ability to customize code, but needed enterprise-grade support;
  • The client needed higher security levels of backups and robustness for a live media broadcast environment, being able to operate efficiently during live, on-air production.

Solution

  1. Bacula worked with Hitachi SAN “out-of-the-box” without any additional development effort;
  2. Bacula’s flexibility allowed to backup Windows, Linux and Mac-based environments, multiple NAS devices and SAN’s;
  3. The client used Hitachi SAN with 1.3 Pb of data with 600 Gb in average file size which was successfully backed up using Delta plugin which is designed to analyze file differences at the block level and saves significant amounts of space.

Results

  • The entire video database of 1.3 Pb data was backed up in just 4 weeks;
  • It took 3 months to deploy the solution, including hardware, networking and software.