A major telecommunications provider in Europe offering a wide range of telecommunications services, including mobile, landline, internet, TV, and cloud services. It also provides business solutions to businesses of all sizes.
Overview
Challenge
- The customer’s infrastructure included 10,000 servers in 2 locations with 8 petabytes of storage capacity;
- A private cloud for standardized SAP services was built using HP hardware and needed to be backed up;
- The backup system should support physical, virtual and container environments, run on Windows- and Linux-based endpoints, integrate with Nagios monitoring, be able to backup SAP HANA;
- While the customer data is growing, the backup system has to have a flexible and scalable licensing model with no data volume costs.
Solution
- The client tried Bacula Enterprise based on the licensing model which is free from data volume costs;
- Because of Bacula’s open source roots it was fairly easy for the client to integrate it with Nagious monitoring tool;
- Bacula’s certified SAP HANA plugin allowed for script-free backups that worked “out-of-the-box”;
- Bacula was scalable to 10,000+ servers without any additional tweaks to its performance.
Results
- 400+GB databases are being backed up to tape and to disk with very large log files;
- Other databases being backed up include Oracle, MS SQL, DB2 and MySQL;
- Bacula ensures disaster recovery by replication to another data center.
