Case Study: Bedford/St. Martin’s achieves scalable, reliable, cost-effective backups with Bacula Systems

Bedford/St. Martin’s - Customer Case Study

Bedford/St. Martin’s, the humanities college textbook publisher within the Holtzbrinck group, faced a rapid increase in data after acquisitions and a planned upgrade to a 26 TB RAID array that their previous backup solution could not handle. To modernize and scale their backup infrastructure they chose Bacula Systems and deployed Bacula Enterprise Edition.

Bacula Systems implemented Bacula Enterprise Edition to protect 30 servers, backing up to LTO‑4, a Quantum Scalar 24 (14 TB of backup data) and a 26 TB RAID for disk‑to‑disk backups. The solution delivered reliable restores (including guided recovery after a full server failure), strong vendor support, and predictable pricing that doesn’t rise with data volume—allowing Bedford/St. Martin’s to safeguard tens of terabytes today and plan an additional 10–12 TB of growth without licensing cost spikes.

Bedford/St. Martin’s

Paul Bastable

Systems Administrator, Group Technology Services