Image Backup

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

With the image backup level strategy, the Bacula Enterprise XenServer Plugin will save the Client disks at the raw level, in the XenServer context.

For this to work, you don’t need a Bacula File Daemon on each guest VM. Bacula’s XenServer plugin will contact your XenServer hypervisor to read and save the contents of your virtual machine disks using snapshots and XAPI. In this case Plugin can perform full range of block level image backup including Incremental and Differential ones.

Bacula doesn’t need to walk through the Client filesystem to open/read/close/stat files, so it consumes less resources on your XenServer infrastructure than a file level backup on each guest machine would. On the other hand, Bacula will also read and save useless data such as swap files or Internet temporary files. The XenServer Plugin will save not only the disk images of the:term:guest VM, but also the guest VM configurations which allows for very easy:term:guest VM restores.