Bacula Enterprise vs. Mirror Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.N/A
Mirror Backup
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Mirror Backup protects users from data loss by continuously monitoring files and folders, and backing them up to the cloud, a network share, or local drive when they change. It does this in a background service that does not require a user to be logged in - presented as ideal for company servers. It can also keep incremental backups, for when users want a history of each file's changes. The vendor states this design is more desirable than whole-disk backups for some situations. And if the…N/A
Pricing
Bacula EnterpriseMirror Backup
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bacula EnterpriseMirror Backup
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details24/7 file protection is available for as little as $1.33 per month. This rate is for a yearly subscription of 30+ seats. The most expensive option, 1 seat/monthly, is $5 per month. Mirror Backup will work with any existing cloud, or local storage can be used.
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Bacula EnterpriseMirror Backup
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Features
Bacula EnterpriseMirror Backup
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Bacula Enterprise
9.3
46 Ratings
13% above category average
Mirror Backup
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Ratings
Universal recovery9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification10.040 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection3.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.044 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.045 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.527 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.038 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots10.035 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment10.043 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard8.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support10.046 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.746 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption10.035 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bacula EnterpriseMirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(46 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
9.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bacula EnterpriseMirror Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Bacula Systems
Well suited: - I use it for on premise and cloud backup and recovery and it is excellent for this job. - I also experiment with different hypervisors and till now Bacula seems to work with all of them - Security is really important for me as I had many bad experiences in the past and Bacula solution makes me totally confident. Less appropriate - You need to be experienced Linux user, I had to learn few more things in system to make the best use of it. - It's definitely designed for scalability and bigger companies than mine
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Pros
Bacula Systems
  • Bacula has great plugins that work very accurately
  • Bacula is very simple to use, with a user-friendly web interface that facilitates operation.
  • Bacula performs the backups very accurately which is clearly noticed when a restore is performed
  • Its ease of use helps in training new support team members
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Cons
Bacula Systems
  • Our team always points out the same problems, I believe that, today, is our biggest complaint: The interface (both graphical and the CLI) still needs improvement.
  • There is no mobile app to manage backups and restores from smartphones
  • Manual installation is time consuming.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Likelihood to Renew
Bacula Systems
Easy to use, proactive and effective customer support, and simple deployment method. The high configurability is what makes this tool so effective for my organization - at no point do I have any issues of trust as to the restorability of a fileset. The GUI provided gives clear actionable reports as to the effectivity of the jobs performed.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Usability
Bacula Systems
This is a hard question. Usability for whom? For someone who is very comfortable at the command line and willing to put in the time to learn Bacula Enterprise's configuration syntax, it's very usable. Just don't expect to be an expert immediately.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Support Rating
Bacula Systems
They're excellent, fast to respond and knowledgeable. I can't fault the support provided at all. On every occasion that we've had a need to contact them during our evaluation, installation, and use of Bacula Enterprise, they've always given us the help that we required. The responses they provide are detailed and we always feel that they've taken the time to read and understand our issue and give a full and personalized answer.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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In-Person Training
Bacula Systems
The professor understood the tool very well, it was a fact that he had mastery over the system and knew what he was talking about, clearing up all doubts and passing on all the necessary knowledge so that we could handle Bacula Enterprise in our organization.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Implementation Rating
Bacula Systems
Bacula Systems and especially Bacula Brazil were extremely attentive and served us very well, making all implementations or changes work perfectly
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Alternatives Considered
Bacula Systems
I used CTERA almost from the time they started up. In short, it was very easy to use but configuration was limited; and in the end the agents were troublesome and I could not restore files. They had one person on staff who was terrific with tech support, when he left support became difficult and I lost confidence. Acronis was my first experience with a bare-metal recovery operation and it was terrific. Really saved the day. I would still be using it except the licensing was difficult and expensive and the software wasn't Linux friendly.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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Return on Investment
Bacula Systems
  • Our Disaster Recovery policy in regards to backups and archiving is made possible because of our use of Bacula Enterprise.
  • TCO is very low as the yearly subscription is very competitively priced. Management of the software is very low so we don't have to spend hours maintaining our backups.
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Gammadyne Corporation
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ScreenShots

Mirror Backup Screenshots

Screenshot of the main window that shows all backup jobs and contains settings for the background service.Screenshot of the window where the settings for a backup job can be edited.Screenshot of the event files, which when missing or damaged, Mirror Backup lets users choose which sets of files need to be restored, and what date and time to roll back to.Screenshot of the progress window for manually triggered backups.