Bacula Enterprise Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bacula is an excellent business tool to centralize the various backup solutions that exist in the company. Due to the number of tools on the market and used in a decentralized way, Bacula is the right choice to centralize backups with reliable monitoring, encryption, secure cloud support for offsite backups, and support for different environments and operating systems. With professionals with a high technical level, to meet all the needs of the company.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise is excellent, stable and reliable for centralizing backup monitoring, task automation and cloud backup

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bacula Enterprise is a very complete and easy-to-use solution, with plugins for different environments, advanced deduplication and encryption and security features

It is also very versatile and can work with different storage strategies, including tape

Furthermore, it is also very customizable to suit backup policies.

It is very easy to monitor, and has very good performance

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise can be used by any company, it is very versatile and affordable, it can be run on a Linux server sized for the size of the company and required retention, it is very simple to use, it does not require a specialized professional, the Bacula Enterprise support is also always available to help when needed

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Bacula Enterprise was a significant evolution for our environment, given that we were already using the Community version. However, we lacked some essential functionalities needed for our use case, such as deduplication and backup of XCP-NG virtual machines, as well as the web interface we were using was not as efficient as the current one provided. The BWEB interface greatly facilitates the configuration of clients, testing, and settings that were previously mostly done on the command line.

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We had been using Bacula Community for 7 years and needed to improve and simplify the backup/restore operations within our institution because we lacked block-level deduplication and efficient backup of virtual machines in the XCP-NG environment. With the acquisition of Bacula Enterprise, we were able to optimize backups in our XCP-NG environment, which consists of 4 physical hosts and around 30 to 40 virtual machines running various versions and distributions of Windows and Linux. The migration was not traumatic for the environment, but it required adjustments and improvements to the previously used configurations, and the Bacula Enterprise team contributed satisfactorily to achieving the goal, which was backing up VMs and optimizing the use of existing resources

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I've been using Bacula Enterprise for the last three years and have to say that is an amazing backup product, attending all necessities from my company and giving us peace of mind that our data is safe. The product is easy to use, a robust solution where they are always working on improvements and the support team as always available and happy to help in case of any problem. With them, we now that we'll have help if needed and that Bacula Enterprise is the best solution to keep our backup up to date.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited to work with backup of files, works really well with linux based systems, as linux doesn't have some limitations like windows has with VSS for a big number of files (it's not a Bacula Enterprise limition, but it's a windows limitation. Recently I started working with WM backup and it's working well, but a limitation on version 14 is that it needs a temporary space on storage for exporting the virtual machine.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a partner in a law firm (Alem & Rocha - Advocacia e Consultoria), sensitive data management is a topic of great relevance. Data Security ensures that all sensitive legal documents, client information, and case files are securely backed up, protecting against data loss due to hardware failure, cyber attacks, or human error, helps with regulatory compliance, ensures that the firm can quickly recover critical data and resume operations with minimal downtime and lawyers can focus on their work without worrying about manually managing backups, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

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My firm needs all the suport to guarantee data security, compliance, efficiency, client trust and cost savings, and Bacula backup system give me this option.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Bacula to backup a Hyper-V environment with more than 2000 VMs and almost 1PB of data.

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Bacula works very well for Vmware, Bare Metal and Proxmox environments. In relation to Hyper-V, until version 16 of Bacula we had some problems, and after the update to 18, many were fixed and the experience improved a lot.

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The Bacula Enterprise backup solution is, for our company, the ultimate solution that guarantees the preservation and recovery of data from both our Windows and Linux environments. All in a simple, transparent and efficient way while guaranteeing cost control whatever the evolution of the company's workforce or that of the IT infrastructure.

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Our backup robot one day had a mechanical problem that led to several days of downtime. After changing this robot, Bacula Enterprise took over all the backups in plug and play mode without the need to carry out any specific operation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've recently started using Bacula Enterprise after switching from IBM's TSM. I wanted to do a proof on concept before pruchasing the product and Bacula helped with not only one proof of concept but also another one several months after the first trial. During this time I had Bacula helping set the system up and I also logged a few support calls to see what the ticket system was like. All tickets were picked up quickly and the support team were helpful. We purchased Bacula including a weeks training course. The course was great and explained Bacula clearly. So much so I was able to download the community edition at home on my NAS! Now we are using Bacula I've been able to see how support is after purchase and so far so good!

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<div>For me, Bacula is well suited for backing up our on prem NAS system to AWS and tape. Bacula gives us a huge amount of control of how we do our backups and how long we retain data.

</div>Bacula isn't suited for archiving. There is no archive function in Bacula so you'd need to find another product to handle archiving but I think Bacula has a function to set a backup to never delete.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Main requirement is for extreme security and fast recovery of data and my applications.

Sometimes I need to do single file recovery but also be prepared for bare metal recovery.

Nowadays we all need to keep the cost at minimum and Bacula helped me with that.

Now I'm experimenting with Bacula replicating my K8s deployment. Seems to work well and will help me grow my business.

My business challenge is that I do not have much time to spend on data backup. It just must me simple and easy thing to manage.

Bacula support team is always fast and super friendly with any inquiries I had

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bacula Enterprise helped a lot in the backup solution, I had already used other solutions but not one as complete. -It has the differential of backup using dedup that helps the network not to copy twice. -there's the virtual full that we use for weekends. -connectivity with various services and systems (windows, linux and database) Among many other things, incredible technical support!

Likelihood to Recommend

In the disaster recovery parts, we already had virtual machines that were totally destroyed by hackers but it didn't affect the backups made by Bacula, since it can encrypt and even if we lose we can recover by installing it again.In addition to the explanation to use tape backup against ransomware, today many customers of the organization feel more secure in making processes in homologation knowing that they will be able to restore at any time.In terms of storage, it saves a lot of space because we can keep for years that space is always compressed, reaching a 3:1 ratio.