Case Study: Armazém Paraíba achieves reliable, enterprise‑grade backup and major cost savings with Bacula Systems

Armazem Paraiba Protects Itself with Bacula Systems

Armazem Paraiba, a leading Brazilian retail chain with more than 300 stores and 15,000 employees, needed a single, highly reliable backup platform to protect a heterogeneous IT environment (Linux, Windows, AIX, Unix), multiple databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server) and a heavily virtualized VMware estate. After evaluating options, the company selected Bacula Systems’ Bacula Enterprise Edition to provide centralized management, dependable restores (including single-file VMware recovery) and relief from data‑volume charging.

Bacula Systems, working with local partner Bacula do Brasil, deployed Bacula Enterprise Edition across Armazem Paraiba’s infrastructure—protecting roughly 95 TB of backup data on HP and Dell hardware with RDX/Buffalo storage—and implemented VerifyData to validate media and filesystem integrity. The deployment delivered centralized, cross‑platform backup and faster, more reliable recovery, increased operational security, responsive local support, and significant cost savings (avoiding volume‑based fees and reducing backup/recovery costs by over 50%).

Armazem Paraiba

Josué Campelo Chaves

Senior Operation Manager