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New Platforms Available for Bacula Community

Bacula Systems is continuing to contribute to the Community version all the time. This week’s news is that it is expanding on its industry-leading support for major platforms by adding RedHat Linux 9, Oracle Linux 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 to our wide range of supported platforms for Community users. You can now find these binaries…

Take a look at the latest new platforms for Bacula Enterprise!

You may already know that Bacula offers an industry-leading range of compatibility with operating systems. Now, even more have just been added: RedHat Linux 9, Oracle Linux 9, Ubuntu 22.04 and MacOSX Big Sur+Monterey. This makes it even easier for users to integrate Bacula into their IT environment. We aim to please! These new binaries…

Bacula Community 13.0 released!

Bacula Enterprise is not the only Bacula product that is enjoying healthy and regular development! We are proud to announce version 13.0 of Bacula Community, which is available now. Here are some of the interesting new tweaks and features of version 13.0: Kubernetes Plugin Storage Group New Accurate Option to Save Only File’s Metadata External…

Bacula Systems announces the release of Bacula Enterprise 14.0.4

Bacula is proud of the quality, relevance and value of the technology it is making available to the industry. So much good stuff that just keeps on coming! Please join me in our congratulations to Bacula´s engineering team for these great new features – and remember not to hesitate to contact Bacula´s support team for…

Bacula Enterprise 14.0.3 released

Bacula Enterprise 14.0.3 is the new reference release. Below the list of the new features brought with 14.0. New Features *************** Plugins: – Add Microsoft 365 Teams support – Add QEMU/Proxmox Plugin with incremental backup support – Add Nutanix filer High File Count (HFC) Plugin – swift: Add keystone v3 auth parameters – Add Amazon…

Access Release 14.0.2 Now!

Release 14.0.2 is already available! Get this latest version to benefit from version 14’s many great new capabilities – and especially these important new features: – Microsoft 365 Plugin including Teams – TOTP Console Authentication Plugin – Security Plugin – Proxmox and QEMU Incremental Backup Plugin – Antivirus Plugin – Nutanix Filer Plugin This version’s…

Bacula Installation Manager Tool On Linux

For those running BEE version 12.8 and later, we deliver a new “Bacula Installation Manager” or “BIM” tool that permits to install and register the FD and any plugin easily with the Director through a wizard, thus to run a backup job of this client very easily. The Bacula Installation Manager permits as well to…

General Availability of 12.8.3

Bacula Systems announces the release of Bacula Enterprise 12.8.3. Its especially broad feature set is wider than ever – and this amazing range of compatibility it set to expand further still in new releases, coming soon. Stay tuned, and don’t hesitate to contact your support team for further insight into Bacula’s newest additions, listed below!…

Client/FD behind NAT Support

With Bacula Enterprise 12.0 and Bacula Community 11.0 comes a very useful new feature. Client or FD behind a NAT can now initiate the connection to the Director so the Director can start a new job on this client. It is very useful when the Director cannot connect to the FD. Obviously, it is still…

General Availability of Bacula Enterprise 12.8.2

Bacula Systems is pleased to announce the release of its new major version of Bacula Enterprise. Bacula already has just about the broadest set of capabilities available in the industry today, and this release expands its rich capabilities even more. Just some of the many new features are listed below. Enjoy, and please make sure…

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Rob Morrison

Rob Morrison started his IT career with Silicon Graphics in Switzerland, which developed into a wide variety of IT management roles for almost 10 years. He has subsequently held various management positions in professional open source companies such as JBoss, Red Hat and Pentaho, contributing to the growth of these well-known companies. He is a graduate of Plymouth University and holds an Digital Media and Communications BSc Honours degree, and completed an Overseas Studies Program.