Corporate backup suite built in Rust — virtualization, databases, deduplication, VM conversion and DR, no vendor lock-in.
Agenda
01 · The Problem
Technical teams tired of legacy backup have faced the same dilemma for years.
Bacula Enterprise closes the gap, but imposes proprietary licensing, mandatory support contracts and SAP-level pricing.
Every enterprise alternative is foreign software — Veeam, CommVault, Veritas, NetBackup. Support subject to geopolitical sanctions, no source available for audit, and data governed by foreign jurisdiction.
Veeam, CommVault, Veritas and NetBackup are high-cost solutions that force full infrastructure and data migration.
Teams that need enterprise features without legacy lock-in, without paying 3× more, without giving up control.
02 · The Solution
Corporate backup suite built in Rust. BRC virtualization, databases, deduplication, DR and proprietary GUI — delivered as RPM/DEB packages, no vendor dependency.
PodHeitor by the numbers
03 · Plugin Catalog — Virtualization (BRC)
Each VM plugin delivers all three capabilities — not just backup.
VHDX direto · RCT · App-consistent
VMDK · VADP snapshot-free · CBT
Nativo · sem agente · qcow2/raw
API AHV · snapshots coerentes
Volumes KVM · multi-tenant
Direct Access a VHDX/VMDK via APIs do hypervisor. No VM export, no guest agent, real RCT/CBT incremental.
Async VM replication between sites. Low-latency RCT-Push for DR. Secondary site ready for failover at any time.
Converts VMs between platforms directly from backup: Hyper-V → KVM, vSphere → Proxmox, etc. Migration with no downtime window.
03 · Plugin Catalog — Databases
Recover tables, rows or individual transactions — without restoring the entire database.
Hot backup without stopping the application. Each DBMS native APIs ensure transactional consistency.
Point-in-time recovery via WAL, archivelog and binlog. Return to any transaction precisely.
03 · Plugin Catalog — Recovery
VM online in seconds — no waiting for a full copy.
Immediate snapshot: VM is started directly from the backup volume via NFS/iSCSI — zero copy time before boot.
Background migration: While the VM runs, data is transparently transferred back to production storage.
Invisible failover: When migration completes, the pointer switches — the VM never sees the change.
Platforms: VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, QEMU/KVM, Hyper-V.
Recover individual files from inside a VM without restoring the entire disk.
Mounts the snapshot and exposes the VM filesystem via FUSE.
Browse & restore NTFS, ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ReFS.
Available directly in PHWEB — no manual scripts.
Recover tables, schemas or transactions — without restoring the entire database.
Point-in-time via WAL (PostgreSQL), archivelog (Oracle), binlog (MySQL).
Surgical restore: a single row in a single table, if needed.
Covers all 8 supported DBMSs — including Oracle RMAN and SQL Server VSS.
Why it matters: Every hour of downtime for a critical VM can cost tens of thousands in stalled operations. Instant Recovery eliminates that cost — the VM is up in < 60 s while data migrates back in the background.
03 · Plugin Catalog — Storage, Security & Management
Block-level, near-CDP. Up to 80% space reduction.
Secure native SSH/SFTP transfer for Linux/Unix.
CBT-delta reduces backup window. Near-CDP for critical workloads.
High performance for scientific computing clusters.
Individual file from VM or database. No full restore needed.
Real-time analysis. Alerts before the attack completes.
File Daemon rewritten in Rust. Memory-safe, zero GC, native performance. 67% faster em todos os cenários testados.
Full dashboard: jobs, volumes, clients, restore wizard, reports, DR Center, AI Copilot and much more. Dedicated slide follows.
PodHeitor Backup Core in proprietary memory-safe Rust. File Daemon (podheitor-fd) in production; Director (phd) and Storage Daemon (phsd) in rollout — zero third-party software dependency.
PHWEB — Graphical Interface
Web app built from scratch for PodHeitor. Live metrics and a 2-step guided backup wizard.
PodHeitor — Strategy & Roadmap
The ultimate goal is a completely memory-safe backup stack, with no C/C++ dependency in any critical layer.
04 · Performance
Raj-Jain Methodology · 180 jobs · 9 cenários · PodHeitor FD vs bacula-fd 15.0.3
Nenhum cenário onde o bacula-fd original ganhou. Não apenas faster em média: faster em todos os casos testados.
05 · Architecture
End-to-end Rust stack built by the PodHeitor team. No external vendor dependency. Memory-safe by construction.
RPM (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, AlmaLinux) and DEB (Ubuntu, Debian). No compilation. No exposed source.
06 · Market Comparison
| Criterion | PodHeitor | Bacula Enterprise | Veeam / Commvault | Legacy Bacula OSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VM Backup (Hyper-V, vSphere…) | ✓ 5 platforms | ✓ 4 platforms | ✓ Completo | ✗ Não incluso |
| Database backup | ✓ 8 SGBDs | ✓ 6 DBMSs | ◐ Limitado | ✗ Não incluso |
| Global deduplication | ✓ Block-level | ◐ Pago à parte | ◐ Pago à parte | ✗ Não incluso |
| Ransomware detection | ✓ Real-time | ◐ Limitado | ◐ Add-on | ✗ Não incluso |
| Secure File Daemon (Rust) | ✓ Memory-safe | ✗ C/C++ | ✗ C++/Java | ✗ C++ |
| Modern GUI | ✓ Incluída | ✓ Incluída | ✓ Incluída | ◐ Bacularis (community) |
| Direct expert support | ✓ Heitor — MSc, +21 yrs Bacula | ◐ Corporate tickets | ◐ Tickets / MSP | ✗ Comunidade |
| Relative cost | 💚 Base | ≈ 2× mais caro | ≈ 3–5× mais caro | Gratuito (sem features) |
What no one else offers
The only enterprise File Daemon written in Rust. No possibility of buffer overflow, use-after-free or race condition — compile-time guarantees, not runtime.
Raj-Jain, 180 jobs, P50/P90 publicados. Concorrentes dizem "5× faster" sem citar método. PodHeitor mostra os dados.
PodHeitor Backup Core in proprietary Rust — memory-safe, native performance. Compatible wire protocol: reversible migration without data loss at any time.
Heitor Faria — MSc in Applied Computing (UnB), author of "Bacula: Backup and Data Recovery" (Novatec), first Bacula instructor at 4Linux, deployments at SERPRO, ITA, Unicamp, Navy, Air Force, Ministry of Defense.
Mass encryption pattern analysis during the backup window — not as a separate solution. Alerts before the attack completes and corrupts all volumes. Unique in the enterprise backup market.
Market recognition
Brazil's leading IT outlets recognize PodHeitor as the first independent sovereign Backup System in Brazil — written in Rust, with proprietary plugins and no dependency on foreign vendors.
Built in Rust by researcher Heitor Faria, PodHeitor is a complete sovereign backup system, written from scratch in Rust, with proprietary virtualization, database, and ransomware-detection plugins — with no dependency on foreign vendors.
The country's first independent sovereign backup system bets on memory-safety, public benchmarks, and flexible licensing to offer a national alternative to Veeam and Bacula Enterprise.
07 · Who It's For
You want enterprise backup capabilities without the exclusivity contract and costs of Bacula Enterprise or Veeam.
You need hot backup of PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQL Server with point-in-time recovery without stopping the application.
You've been managing enterprise backup for years and want to add VM backup and deduplication without migrating everything.
"Teams that need enterprise features without legacy lock-in, without paying 3× more, without giving up control."
The person behind it
"Twenty-one years in the field taught me three things: modern environments are heterogeneous and evolve fast, data sovereignty is no longer optional, and no one should pay three times more for innovation. PodHeitor is my answer — in Rust."
Positioning
"The backup market is full of unsubstantiated claims. PodHeitor publishes the data and lets the customer decide."
— Heitor Faria, podheitor.comCost vs Value
Licensing Model
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21 enterprise plugins · Rust memory-safe · Direct expert support