Key Benefits

Direct,
easy,
secure
backup and restore of
your databases
Increase your DBMS backup
efficiency
Implementation of a global
DBMS backup vision

Back up your databases

securely and easily
with Bacula Enterprise
Addressing your policy needs
Backing up a database is something crucial in an IT infrastructure. With its Database Management System (DBMS) plugins, Bacula Systems enables all businesses to take advantage
of better and more secure solutions to back up databases. No specific knowledge is required
while taking care of data and meta-data: users, rights, roles, etc.
Bacula Systems offers now several plugins to back up your databases:

Backup and restore plugins make Bacula Enterprise the solution of choice for
backing up the worlds leading databases

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Key Benefits

Backing up Oracle databases

Block level incremental and

differential backups with
RMAN

The Oracle plugin is designed to simplify the backup and restore procedures of your Oracle
database instance(s). It provides important features including restoring your database(s) to
any point in time or being able to filter objects during backup or restore; all of them being
available using two different backup techniques: Dump and Point In Time Recovery (PITR)
through Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN). The plugin also implements the RMAN API
sbt that eliminates the need to write files to local disks first.
In both Dump and RMAN modes, the plugin will back up all essential information, an Oracle
DBA best practice.
It is quite common to combine both Dump and RMAN PITR techniques to back up the same
cluster.

RMANs change tracking

feature
Eliminates the needs for
complex script writing
No Oracle skills required

Improving incremental and differential backup

The Bacula Systems Oracle plugin uses many of the features of RMAN, including its change
tracking feature to improve backup performance by recording changed blocks in each data
file in a change tracking file. If the change tracking feature is enabled, RMAN uses the
change tracking file to identify changed blocks for incremental backup, thus avoiding the
need to scan every block in the data file.
Restoring data
As shown on the figures below, the Oracle plugin allows you to restore your databases either
with RMAN or using Dump.

Supported platforms
This plugin is available on Linux platforms 32/64 bits supported by Oracle and supports
Oracle database 10.x, 11.x.
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Key Benefits

Backing up PostgreSQL databases

Supports PITR backup

The PostgreSQL plugin is designed to simplify the backup and restore procedures of your
PostgreSQL cluster(s); the backup administrator does not need to know the internals of
PostgreSQL backup techniques or write complex scripts. The plugin automatically takes care
of backing up essential information such as configuration, user definitions and tablespaces.
The PostgreSQL plugin supports both Dump and Point In Time Recovery (PITR) backup
techniques.

Also backs up vital metadata information

Incremental and differential
backup options

Hot backup
The Bacula Systems PostgreSQL plugin allows the administrator to back up PostgreSQL
server(s) in a hot backup mode, with WAL files backup.
Restoring data

Cluster content

Database content
Supported platforms
This plugin is available on Linux platforms 32 and 64 bits and supports officially maintained
PostgreSQL versions: 8.4, 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2. It works on Bacula Enterprise 6.0.6 and higher.

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Key Benefits

Backing up MySQL databases

Point In Time Recovery feature for both Dump and Binary

The MySQL plugin is designed to simplify the backup and restore of your MySQL server(s);
the backup administrator does not need to know the internals of MySQL backup techniques
or how to write complex scripts. The plugin will automatically back up essential information
such as configuration and user definitions. The MySQL plugin supports both Dump and
Binary backup techniques.

Also backs up vital metadata information

Object
filtering
backup and restore

during

Allows Dump and Binary

mode combination

Choice is yours
The Bacula Systems MySQL plugin allows the administrator to choose between Dump
(slower and smaller backups) or Binary (faster and larger backups). The MySQL plugin takes
care of the MySQL log files when using the Point In Time Recovery (PITR) feature.

No MySQL skills required

Script free database backup
& restore

Restoring data

MySQL server content during restore

Restoring a single MySQL database

Supported platforms
This plugin is available on Linux 32 and 64 bits platforms and supports MySQL versions
4.0.x, 4.1.x, 5.0.x, 5.5.x, 5.6.x.
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Key Benefits

Backing up MS SQL databases

Full and Differential backups

The VSS plugin is designed to back up several Windows specific components, particularly
MS SQL databases. Backing up MS SQL database(s) with Bacula Enterprise VSS plugin is
as easy as specifying

Fully integrated into the

VSS plugin
Restores all databases while
MS SQL is running, excluding the master

Plugin = "vss:/@MSSQL/
into the FileSet definition of the Bacula job.
Restoring
The VSS plugin is able to restore either the master or the other databases instances. All
databases, excluding the master, can be restored while MS SQL is running. The VSS plugin
is also compatible with the MS SQL relocation process.

MS SQL server tree during restore

Relocated database
Supported platforms
This plugin is available on Windows 2003 SP1 and higher, Windows 2008 R1 and Windows
2008 R2.

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