Overview

A government agency responsible for the space programs and aeronautics research.

Challenge

  • The client was using IBM’s High Performance Storage System and needed the backup system to be able to work with it;
  • As a government agency, the client needed the software which is FIPS-compliant and provides highest levels of encryption;
  • The client needed the centralized management solution with web interface (not console) to manage backup operations in various data centers;
  • There was a need for SAN Shared Storage and Oracle tape libraries support.

Solution

  1. Bacula worked with HPSS “out-of-the-box” without any additional development effort;
  2. The exciptional flexibility of Bacula allows the usage of multiple tape libraries and autochangers as well as multiple storage media types;
  3. Bacula’s BWeb interface delivers sysadmins seamless management operations on both desktop and mobile;
  4. With Bacula’s SAN Shared Storage plugin, Oracle plugin, FIPS compliance and sophisticated security controls Bacula was chosen for a PoC which completed succefully;

Results

  • The overall size of backed up data is 1.5 Pb, and the backup system contains 20+ tape drives in a library managed by Bacula;
  • Bacula’s advantageous licensing model allowed the client to save 20% of backup budget;
  • It took the client 4 months to migrate from the previous vendors to Bacula.