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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bacula Enterprise

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.N/A

    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIDrive protects PCs, Macs, mobile devices, Servers, Cloud Applications Data (SAAS) including Office 365, and Google Workspace, and provides S3 compatible Object Storage with IDrive e2. IDrive offers different plans for cloud backup for devices: - IDrive Personal - IDrive Core - IDrive Team - IDrive Small Business - IDrive Enterprise - IDrive360 EndPoint IDrive provides Cloud Applications data (SAAS) Backup: - Microsoft Office 365 Backup - Google…

    $59.50

    per year One user, unlimited computers 5TB storage

    Pricing
    Bacula EnterpriseIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    IDrive Cloud to Cloud Backup
    $20
    per year
    IDrive 360 EndPoint
    $29.50
    per year
    IDrive e2
    $49.50
    per year
    IDrive Core
    $79.50
    per year
    Personal
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Team
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Business
    $99.50
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bacula EnterpriseIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—IDrive regularly offers first year discounts for all plans and offers a full-featured 30-day free trial for IDrive 360 Endpoint
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    Community Pulse
    Bacula EnterpriseIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Considered Both Products
    Bacula Systems
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    IDrive
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    91 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    88 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    86 Answers
    Features
    Bacula EnterpriseIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Bacula Enterprise and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    9.4
    49 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery10.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification10.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection3.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.741 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots10.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment10.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.646 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.749 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption10.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Bacula Enterprise and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.5
    93 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings9.768 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings9.371 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.466 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    File search00 Ratings9.378 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.284 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Bacula Enterprise and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    8.9
    88 Ratings
    3% above category average
    User and role management00 Ratings9.371 Ratings
    File organization00 Ratings8.184 Ratings
    Device management00 Ratings9.385 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Bacula Enterprise and IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.0
    93 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Performance00 Ratings8.290 Ratings
    Reliability00 Ratings9.488 Ratings
    Storage Reports00 Ratings9.481 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bacula EnterpriseIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (49 ratings)
    9.5
    (97 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bacula EnterpriseIDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    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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    IDrive
    It scales well from the individual to corporate environments with many different plans to suit your needs and budget. For backing up servers such as Exchange or SQL I've used their sister product iBackup, which is also excellent and we have no problems with, so maybe they should merge the two products into one which would make it a better overall proposition. It also seems to handle backing up mapped drives as well, which is what we used for a while before getting the on server version. That being said it can use up quite a bit of bandwidth so make sure you schedule at night when noone is working. However it does only backup changed files which is great.
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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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    IDrive
    • I'm using it on MAC, the app works very well in the background
    • Logging activities is something I really like, because I can check whether the backup was successful or not.
    • I really like the option of being able to select external drivers and back up only specific folders or files.
    • The application itself is very easy to use, even though it doesn't have a version in my language (pt-br), I had no trouble setting it up and I'm using it without any problems.
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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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    IDrive
    • DropBox-protected folders were not initially backed up as IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 did not follow the symbolic links created
    • I experienced some UX confusion in adding new folders to backup; it's a different interface than setting up exclusions, and they should follow the same workflow and page buttons
    • After a reboot, it appears like a full disk scan is performed which can take quite a long time on a disk which has many files and lots of space
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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.
    Incentivized
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    IDrive
    It does everything that it needs to to create an effecitve Three level backup to the cloud of all your important data, its reliable, dependable and peformant in its use cases. It overcomes the need to store offsite physical media such as Tape or disk storage. And its cost and level of reporting can be tailored to fit the use case of your business.
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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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    IDrive
    While both the desktop and mobile apps are pretty straightforward and not complicated to navigate with features and settings fairly easy to understand and execute with clear enough descriptions they could use a refresh to be a but more intuitive and improvements made so they are less glitchy. Also backup speeds could use some improvement
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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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    IDrive
    I have not had to use their tech support. I did call once but luckily figured out what to do while I was on hold so I disconnected. If I really needed them it would have been a very long hold time I suppose.
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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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    IDrive
    No answers on this topic
    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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    IDrive
    Did not participate in the implementation.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    IDrive
    I was a Backblaze user for 5 years because they had a very cost effective plan for my storage needs. However, they were very poor at backing up external devices quickly, and made it a pain in the butt to keep the backups active due to their 30 days connectivity policy.
    Dropbox is a great fit for cloud backup when you need to access the backup files in the cloud frequently.
    IDrive is the best solution out there for true backup of devices in case they are damaged or lost.
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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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    IDrive
    • For individual users such as my case, the savings with the Personal plan are important compared to alternatives like ElephantDrive. For 5TB ElephantDrive costs $600/yr in the comparable Family plan, whereas IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 costs only $99.50/yr.
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