Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 ships with a new set of high-end plugins such as Delta, VMware, SAN Shared Storage and Microsoft Exchange / SQL Server; offers large data centers high-value, commercial open source alternative. Bacula Systems, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, announced the general availability of Bacula Enterprise Edition 6, the latest major release of the company's enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery solution. Designed to safeguard today’s rapidly evolving enterprise architectures, Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 delivers the high-end features customers need for physical, visualized and cloud environments at a fraction of the cost of proprietary vendors. Used by customers all over the world, Bacula Enterprise Edition has gained a reputation for performance and reliability and presents an affordable alternative to proprietary backup solutions. Enterprise Edition 6 delivers a dramatic increase in performance, providing data centers the ability to backup, monitor, report, and restore data from more sources, more easily, and more quickly than ever before. This new major version brings to systems administrators, hosting and cloud professionals rich new features and enhancements, as well as a new set of plugins designed to help IT departments manage the challenges of data protection in rapidly changing environments.

Bacula Enterprise Edition 6 addresses today's and tomorrow's enterprise requirements with new plugins and features including: - Delta plugin - VMware plugin - SAN Shared Storage plugin - Microsoft SQL Server VSS plugin - Microsoft Exchange VSS plugin - Job Stop/Restart/Resume: increased flexibility when dealing with failed or large backup sets - Job bandwidth limitation: dynamically set the maximum throughput of a running Job - Support for Andrew FileSystem - LZO compression - Safer pruning algorithm - and more!