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August 20, 2021

The Enterprise VMWare plugin now supports the HotAdd transport mode

The Bacula Enterprise VMWare plugin now supports the HotAdd Transport mode for VMware. In HotAdd mode, virtual disks from the VM being backed up are mounted to the proxy where the FD is running, so those disks can be accessed by the proxy as local disks. If SAN mode is not available, HotAdd mode can…

August 5, 2021

FreeIPA Support with the Bacula Enterprise LDAP/Microsoft AD plugin

The Bacula Enterprise MSAD/LDAP plugin now supports FreeIPA! FreeIPA is the upstream open-source project for Red Hat Identity Management (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeIPA). This development underlines Bacula Systems’ eagerness to continue working hard to help its customers in supporting the various chosen solutions they have running in their infrastructure. More to come!

August 4, 2021 Updated August 5, 2021

Your Health!

One ‘secret’ some may not know about is that Bacula community users with medium/large deployments can take advantage of a free ‘Health Check’ service. This is a really nice “medical check up”exercise that nearly always provides useful information to the Administrator on how to improve use of, or get more out of Bacula. This check…

June 3, 2021

Bacula Release 11.0.5

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 11.0.5 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge. Thank you for using Bacula. This is a major new release with many new features and a number of changes. Please take care to test this code carefully before putting it into production. Although the […]

May 29, 2021

Bacula Release 11.0.4

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 11.0.4 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge. Thank you for using Bacula. This is a major new release with many new features and a number of changes. Please take care to test this code carefully before putting it into production. Although the […]

May 21, 2021

Bacula Release 11.0.3

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 11.0.3 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge. Thank you for using Bacula. This is a major new release with many new features and a number of changes. Please take care to test this code carefully before putting it into production. Although the […]

March 29, 2021

Bacula Release 11.0.2

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 11.0.2 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge. Thank you for using Bacula. This is a major new release with many new features and a number of changes. Please take care to test this code carefully before putting it into production. Although the […]

February 5, 2021 Updated February 16, 2021

Bacula Release 11.0.1

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 11.0.1 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge.

This is a major new release with many new features and a number of
changes. Please take care to test this code carefully before putting it into
production. Although the new features have been tested, they have not run in a
production environment.

Compatibility:

As always, both the Director and Storage daemon(s) must be upgraded at
the same time. Any File daemon running on the same machine as a Director
or Storage daemon must be of the same version.

January 14, 2021 Updated March 5, 2023

Free Database Backup Software

A necessary part of ensuring your business’s continuity is the ability to restore your databases from backups. Unfortunately however, it’s not uncommon for IT administrators to do the bare minimum required in terms of backup, and not consider important factors such as viability, integrity, reliability and security. While the topic of database backups might seem […]

December 12, 2020 Updated January 26, 2021

Bacula Release 11.0.0 (beta)

We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 11.0.0 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge.

This is a major new release with many new features and a number of
changes. Please take care to test this code carefully before putting it into
production. Although the new features have been tested, they have not run in a
production environment.

Compatibility:

As always, both the Director and Storage daemon(s) must be upgraded at
the same time. Any File daemon running on the same machine as a Director