Whitepaper — PodHeitor CloudStack

VM-level backup with block-level CBT (QEMU dirty bitmaps), continuous DR replication, cross-restore to Proxmox/Hyper-V/VMware, and streaming format conversion — capabilities the Bacula Enterprise CloudStack plugin does not cover. Companion technical document to the PodHeitor CloudStack plugin page. 1. The problem:…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor MSSQL

VDI on Windows, TDS/FIFO on Linux, BACKUP TO URL for Azure SQL MI, up-to-64-way striped parallel I/O, three native replication modes (log shipping / AG bootstrap / fanout), instant recovery, and SSAS/SSRS/SSIS coverage. Technical companion to the PodHeitor MSSQL plugin…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor OracleDB

Five backup modes (dump / rman / rman_sbt / cdp / replicate), pure-Rust libobk-rs.so SBT v2, Oracle 11g R2 → 23ai, anti-ransomware canary, and Bacularis-driven restore with no SSH on the Oracle host. Technical companion to the PodHeitor OracleDB plugin…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor MySQL / MariaDB

Parallel logical dump, hot physical via xtrabackup/mariabackup with LSN incremental chain, MySQL 8.0.17+ CLONE INSTANCE agent-less, transportable tablespaces, and native DR-replica provisioning. Technical companion to the PodHeitor MySQL plugin page. 1. Why not the Bacula Enterprise MySQL plugin? The Enterprise…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor PostgreSQL

Five backup modes (dump / parallel_dump / pitr / pitr_block / cdp), replication-slot and subscription capture, automated 6-phase restore, and PG17 block-level via pg_basebackup --incremental. Technical companion to the PodHeitor PostgreSQL plugin page. 1. The problem: stock Bacula + PostgreSQL…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor vSphere

Image-level backup via VADP + CBT, CBT-based push replication with 10 DR modes, cross-hypervisor restore (vSphere ↔ Hyper-V ↔ Proxmox), and the VDDK runtime RPM with RPATH=$ORIGIN that avoids polluting the host's ld.so. Technical companion to the PodHeitor vSphere plugin…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor Hyper-V

Direct VHDX access without Export-VM, change tracking via RCT (Resilient Change Tracking), near-CDP RCT-Push replication, cross-hypervisor conversion (vSphere/Proxmox → Hyper-V), and multi-adapter architecture. Technical companion to the PodHeitor Hyper-V plugin page. 1. The problem: Hyper-V backup without a plugin is…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor Proxmox

Internal architecture, operation modes, Veeam-style DR replication, NBD-based instant recovery, cross-hypervisor conversion (vSphere/Hyper-V → PVE), and the security model with TLS fingerprint pinning. Technical companion to the PodHeitor Proxmox plugin page. 1. The problem: stock Bacula is hypervisor-blind Bacula Community…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor Firebird

Commercial-grade Rust plugin for Firebird 3/4/5 on Bacula Community 15.0.3+, closing a real gap: Bacula Enterprise does not ship a Firebird plugin. Three modes (gbak dump, nbackup chain L0..LN, FB ≥4 replication-log shipping), cross-version migration, FB 5 parallel workers (gbak…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor MongoDB

Technical whitepaper — PodHeitor MongoDB Backup & Replication Plugin for Bacula. cdylib + backend architecture, dump mode and oplog incrementals, point-in-time replay, Ed25519-signed manifests, Prometheus exporter, and license isolation for Bacula Community 15.0.3+ and Bacularis. Companion document to the PodHeitor…

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Whitepaper — PodHeitor HPC Backup

Technical whitepaper — PodHeitor HPC Backup Plugin for Bacula. Internal architecture, parallelism model, sharding, integration with parallel filesystems (Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, CephFS, WekaFS), field benchmarks, and deployment topologies for HPC clusters with billion-file namespaces. Technical companion to the PodHeitor HPC…

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