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Rgds. On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM Dev Team <[email protected]> wrote: > Heitor, > > NOBODY can/will run a backup on SAP which is not certified! You will loose > your support same moment. I think I know SAP and requirements well. SAP > have very hard requirements even how your setup for testing - staging and > production must look like. > > Your is based on what? active active, stand by, bow failover work. how you > get a quorum? > > I really would like to talk to a customer of you which is experience of > your new development. Which if your customer use a Mainframe? Government i > know the responsible people in Brazil and I could ask them they know > anything about NG backup. 0r maybe SERPO? All my contacts dont know > anything about NGbackup > > > > On Dienstag, Juli 07, 2026 at 2:11 PM, Heitor Faria <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hello Reiner, > > Thanks for the detailed note. It's clear you read the material closely, so > let me answer point by point. > > PodHeitor vs NGBackup. You're conflating two different products (thanks > for being my fan). PodHeitor was built on Community Bacula and deprecated > for the better stuff. NGBackup is a from-scratch engine: 1,000+ Rust source > files, zero C, memory-safe by construction. That's not a marketing > adjective. It's why the whole class of memory-corruption CVEs that legacy > engines keep publishing cannot occur here. So "nothing has changed since > PodHeitor" is simply wrong. Everything under the hood changed. > > "Just repackaged community plugins." Every NGBackup plugin is written in > one standard language, Rust, compiled and memory-safe. That is materially > more performant and more serious than the open-ended > PowerShell/Python/shell scripts that other suites rely on for their > plugins. Uniform tooling, no interpreter sprawl, no per-plugin runtime > surprises. That is original engineering, not copy-paste. > > High availability. This is real HA, not file copying. NGBackup runs an > active/standby Director pair with product-managed catalog and configuration > replication. It supports automatic failover with witness quorum and a > split-brain guard, plus planned, unplanned, maintenance and test failover > modes, and failback with reverse sync. Calling that "SCP/SFTP somewhere" is > not accurate. It is a designed control-plane HA architecture, and it is > exactly what enterprise backup HA is supposed to mean. > > Deduplication. There's nothing to misunderstand here. Any backup > specialist knows dedup ratios improve as more repetitive, retained backups > accumulate. We state the industry-standard 20x, with some environments > exceeding 60x at higher retention and redundancy. That's a range tied to > retention, reported exactly the way every dedup vendor reports one. Not a > lab trick. Arithmetic. > > Where else we are ahead of Bacula Enterprise: > > A single control plane. Every daemon (Director, SD, FD) is remotely > reconfigurable, reloadable and restartable from one place, including remote > SD/FD config edits with validation, atomic apply and rollback. Bacula has > none of this. > Config-as-data. Director configuration lives in the database as immutable, > versioned revisions. No config-file sprawl across daemons and plugins. > No clear-text passwords in files. Enrollment is token-based. Secrets are > sealed, never written in plaintext to a .conf. > Modern and vastly more complete Web and console interfaces. > Mainframe / SAP HANA. We have real customers running both in Brazil. The > ADABAS plugin ships today. z/OS binaries are being built. On SAP HANA > specifically, the absence of a formal certification badge doesn't mean the > capability can't be delivered. Certification is a commercial and > partnership step, not a technical ceiling. We have customers on it. > Bloom filters and segment locality in Dedup for better performance. > > Pricing. Enterprise backup is quote-based across this market. Bacula > Enterprise and the other vendors don't publish price lists either. Ours is > the same model, with a concrete migration discount for teams leaving Veeam, > Commvault or NetBackup. > > On the "copy-paste" thesis generally. A single Rust control plane, > active/standby HA with automatic failover, config-as-data in the catalog, > tokenized enrollment with no plaintext secrets, and Rust-native plugins are > not things the community project offers. That is original design, and it's > shipping. > > I'll note, since it's relevant to the tone here, that you have a > commercial relationship with Bacula Systems, and this critique arrives > alongside messages on LinkedIn that I'd characterize as threats. I'm glad > to have a technical debate on the merits. I'd rather keep it there. > > Best regards, > Heitor Faria > NGBackup / NGStructures, LSG Global Group > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 6:41 AM Reiner Jung <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Heitor, >> >> It looks as if the only real selling point of your solution is that it is >> written in Rust. Apart from that, if you take a closer look at what you are >> trying to sell here, it is just marketing fluff. >> >> Let’s take ransomware detection as an example. It is more than doubtful >> that what you are selling now is any different from what you already tried >> to market some time ago as PodHeitor. It was ineffective and pointless >> then, and nothing here suggests that has changed. >> >> Your claim of deduplication with a 60x factor is highly questionable. I >> have no idea how you arrive at such numbers – presumably under idealized >> lab conditions with a carefully selected configuration that has little to >> do with reality. >> >> You also write: >> >> “From the mainframe to Microsoft 365 in one place — 21 database, >> virtualization and cloud plugins.” >> >> I assume you do not have a mainframe at home, and it does not appear on >> your actual plugin list either. This makes your marketing statement >> misleading at best. As PodHeitor there was ever SAP HANA. You never can >> provide this as you must be a partner and you are not. >> >> Your so‑called “high availability” is no such thing; at most it is a >> simple failover where you copy files somewhere else using SCP/SFTP. >> Architecturally, this is just wrong and falls far short of what real HA >> means in enterprise backup. Is this really automatic failure? Ask you AI, >> it is not. >> >> Your entire solution looks just as fragile as your previous offerings >> that you kept promoting with bpipe and similar tools. >> >> There is also no transparent price list, just a vague promise to be 50% >> cheaper than Veeam. Where are your actual prices? On your own site, you >> instead advertise discounts of “≥ 50% off your current Veeam / Commvault / >> NetBackup contract,” which raises even more questions about how realistic >> and sustainable your pricing is. >> >> Based on the documents you have published in the past, it is doubtful >> that you even fully understood what your AI-generated material is saying. >> >> Most of the features you list here are not innovations at all but a cheap >> copy of what you have simply recompiled or repackaged from Bacula >> Community, which already offers many plugins and advanced backup functions >> in open source form. >> >> The more interesting question is how you and your development team intend >> to further develop Bacula Core itself, or whether you are once again just >> waiting for the next community release so you can copy new features into >> your product. >> >> Innovation does not come from copy and paste. It comes from original >> design, real-world testing, and delivering value beyond what the community >> has already built. >> >> >> > > -- > Atenciosamente, > > Heitor faria (Miami) > https://ngbackup.com > WhatsApp: +1 786-726-1749 | +55 61 98268-4220 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- Atenciosamente, Heitor faria (Miami) https://ngbackup.com WhatsApp: +1 786-726-1749 | +55 61 98268-4220
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