The Leibniz Institute – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH(DSMZ)has been using Bareos for almost 10 years now. Currently, the daily backup volume is in the range of 10 to 20 Terabytes.
The DSMZ is one of the largest biological resource centers worldwide. Its collections currently include almost 30,000 items, including about 20,000 different bacterial and 5,000 fungal strains, 700 human and animal cell lines, 800 plant cell lines, 1,300 plant viruses and antisera, and 4,800 different types of bacterial genomic DNA.