Bacula Systems Introduces Bacula Independent Recovery for Vendor-Independent Cyber Recovery

YVERDON-LES-BAINS, SWITZERLAND, September 30, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Bacula Systems, a provider of enterprise backup, recovery, and data protection solutions, has introduced Bacula Independent Recovery, a new cyber-resilience solution designed to enable organizations to recover critical systems from physically isolated backup copies without depending on external cloud services, internet connectivity, or the availability of Bacula Systems itself.

The new solution addresses a critical weakness in conventional cyber-resilience strategies: possessing protected backup data does not necessarily mean that an organization can independently recover it. Recovery may still depend on a vendor-operated control plane, online entitlement service, external identity provider, cloud connection, or specialist assistance that could be unavailable during a major cyberattack or infrastructure disruption.

Bacula Independent Recovery combines hardened backup, controlled transfer to isolated storage, catalogue reconstruction, automated recovery verification, and documented recovery procedures. Its principal capabilities include:

- Physically isolated protection using tape, removable media, or appropriately disconnected storage. - Vendor-independent recovery without access to Bacula Systems' personnel, networks, portals, or hosted services. - Recovery from backup media even if the original Bacula environment and catalogue are unavailable. - A sealed Recovery Independence Kit containing the software, configurations, documentation, keys, and procedures required to reconstruct the recovery environment. - Zero-egress operation, with no mandatory call-home, vendor-hosted orchestration, or continuous external connectivity. - Evidence generation to support governance and regulatory requirements associated with frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, NIST SP 800-53, CNSSI 1253, IEC 62443, and NERC CIP.

At the center of the offering is the Bacula Recovery Independence Test. During this witnessed exercise, Bacula's personnel, services, and networks are treated as unavailable. The customer must recover an agreed set of systems using only its own staff, infrastructure, credentials, encryption keys, documentation, and isolated backup copies. The test produces documented evidence of recovery readiness while identifying any remaining operational dependencies.

Air-gapping is valuable only if the isolated data can be reliably located, read, and restored under real emergency conditions, said Jorge Gea, Co-CEO and Chief Technology Officer of Bacula Systems.

Bacula Independent Recovery builds on Bacula's secure architecture, bare-metal recovery, extensive tape support, and storage independence. Bacula's open-source foundation and fully on-premises operating capability further support organizations seeking technological independence and long-term control over their recovery infrastructure.

The solution is intended particularly for government, defense, financial services, critical infrastructure, and other security-sensitive organizations. It can support requirements concerning operational sovereignty, jurisdictional control, technology concentration risk, and exit planning, as well as US federal and critical-infrastructure security and assessment requirements.