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Bacula Enterprise

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What is Bacula Enterprise?

Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.

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BACULA best cost benefit on the market

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 28, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Here at Prodap, we have been struggling for a long time to access a Backup software that was good and cheap, we found Bacula as the best value for money. Right from the start,...
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Davilson Aguiar
Administrator - Engineering
ANALISTA TECNOLOGIA BANCO DE DADOS
Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação - PRODAP
Bacula Enterprise10 years of experience

Bacula Enterprise is the Best Corporate Backup System Currently

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 27, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Bacula is an intelligent backup solution. We use it for corporate backup with industry data copy routines and administrative environment. We use Bacula with a focus on filesys...
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Luis Silva
Analyst - Information Technology
Analista de Suporte SR
Datacom
Bacula Enterprise4 years of experience

Bacula Enterprise: A necessary investment with a guaranteed return

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 13, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
The reason we use Bacula Enterprise is to provide an effective backup and disaster recovery framework. As the solution is agnostic, that is, it can be deployed in practically ...
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Marcelo Miranda
Team Lead - Information Technology
Infrastructure, Networks and Telecommunications Coordinator
Câmara Municipal de Campinas
Bacula Enterprise6 years of experience

The Best Corporate Backup Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 9, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Marco Lima
Manager - Information Technology
Corporate Infrastructure Project Manager
Claro Brasil
Bacula Enterprise10 years of experience

Bacula Evaluation of Bacula Enterprise in a hospital environment.nterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 8, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
The Bacula Enterprise was a significant evolution for our environment, given that we were already using the Community version. However, we lacked some essential functionalitie...
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André Fernando Pereira
Analyst - Information Technology
IT Analyst
HU-UFGD - EBSERH
Bacula Enterprise1 year of experience
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What is Bacula Enterprise?

Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.

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Product Details

What is Bacula Enterprise?

Bacula Enterprise is a modern backup, restore, and disaster recovery solution for medium and large enterprises that does not penalize you for data volume.

Bacula delivers a complete feature set to meet the needs of the most demanding data centers, MSPs and cloud providers. With a combination of reliability and functionality, it spans virtual, physical and cloud environments, all from one platform. The vendor says their product is designed with flexibility, scalability and high security in mind, and uses an industry standard SQL database, supports relational database catalogs, and has heterogeneous client support including Linux, OS X and Windows, as well as backup to disk, tape, virtual tape, robotic libraries, public and private Cloud.

According to the vendor, Bacula Systems works to deliver extremely high standards of support. Customers receive direct access to senior support engineers.

Bacula Enterprise Features

Data Center Backup Features

  • Supported: Instant recovery
  • Supported: Recovery verification
  • Supported: Multiple backup destinations
  • Supported: Incremental backup identification
  • Supported: Backup to the cloud
  • Supported: Deduplication and file compression
  • Supported: Snapshots
  • Supported: Flexible deployment
  • Supported: Management dashboard
  • Supported: Platform support
  • Supported: Retention options
  • Supported: Encryption

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Bacula Enterprise Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Suse, OpenSuse
Mobile ApplicationAndroid

Frequently Asked Questions

Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.

Veeam Data Platform, Arctera Backup Exec, and Tivoli Business Service Manager (legacy) are common alternatives for Bacula Enterprise.

Reviewers rate Instant recovery and Recovery verification and Multiple backup destinations highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Bacula Enterprise are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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A reliable enterprise backup solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 18, 2019
MM
Matthias Merz
Dipl.-Inform.
JACOB Elektronik GmbH (Computer Hardware, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently centralizing the existing scattered backup solutions into one solution. Due to the number of heterogeneous systems, we strongly need a centralized solution with dependable monitoring, encryption, secure cloud support for off-site backups and support for different environments and operating systems. Bacula's plug-in system provides support for our needs, may it be Windows, Linux, databases, Exchange, etc.
Pros
  • Good support during the decision phase: PoC with technical assistance and honest answers about what might pose problems.
  • Text-based configuration allows for utilization of config management and Git-based change tracking, even with merge-request-approval, if needed.
  • Supports all needed operating systems (whereas using os-specific solutions e.g. VSS snapshots on Windows, therefore utilizing the power of registered VSS writers).
  • CLI, as well as web management interfaces, are available.
  • Dependable job runs: If something goes wrong, the admin will at least know (we had issues with that in another backup solution).
  • Multi-cloud capable, with encryption support.
  • Extensive documentation provided on nearly every aspect, also covering typical sticking points.
Cons
  • There is a somewhat steep learning curve, but OTOH, I don't see how a "trivial" config could provide the flexibility and strength Bacula does.
  • Finding the right documentation may take some time due to structuring.
Likelihood to Recommend
There are sometimes glitches in running backup jobs, but at least I get the knowledge about it by dependable job emails. This allows for quick re-schedules.
We previously had a backup solution where after rebooting a Windows server, you would receive emails telling you no backup had happened for four consecutive weeks.

Bacula - A Backup Storage Solution That is Easy to Trust

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 13, 2019
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My organization uses Bacula to perform file-based backups of our production and production support resources. The entire organization is being backed up with varying degrees of granularity - allowing us to tune our backup and restoration schemes without impacting end users negatively. The services are unobtrusive to deploy and run nightly without any interference from a human being.
Pros
  • Heavily tunable with regards to backend storage, scheduling, and filesets
  • Enterprise deployment is straightforward and easy to roll out
  • Customer support is top-notch - any question I've ever had has been asked and answered within a few business days.
  • Support engineers are very proactive in helping maintain your infrastructure with regards to running reports and checking for system health
  • Training programs offered by Bacula are very thorough
  • Documentation is fantastic
Cons
  • Steep learning curve - with high configurability comes lots of reading and trial and error
  • Directory tree for configuration tends to get confusing depending on which host is being configured
Likelihood to Recommend
Bacula is well suited for any long-term data persistence and retrieval applications. Within my organization, our persisted production data changes depending on the day, and Bacula allows us to schedule proper filesets to match how quickly they change. Additionally, the restoration and retrieval of those filesets is a snap -- with the Enterprise edition, the GUI has a quick drag/drop interface that allows you to choose which files need to be restored and where. This saves us time from muddling around in complicated configuration files or using the console.

Extremely impressive support staff for a complex product

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 11, 2020
DD
Daniel Drucker
Director of IT, McLean Imaging Center
McLean Hospital (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are the McLean Imaging Center--the neuroimaging center at McLean Hospital. McLean maintains the world's largest neuroscientific and psychiatric research program in a private hospital. It is the largest psychiatric facility of Harvard Medical School, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, and part of Mass General Brigham. The Imaging Center is primarily research, with some clinical duties as well. At the Center we back up ~50 clients and ~1.5 PB to a mix of disk and LTO7 tape. Our primary workload is research neuroimaging data.
Pros
  • Hyper-competent support staff
  • Extreme configurability
  • Extensive logging and reporting
  • Command line and GUI interface
Cons
  • Backups storage format is outdated--treats everything, even disk, as if it were a tape.
  • No deduplication support in base product.
  • Inconsistent support for filesystem snapshots on non-Windows platforms
  • Steep learning curve--but rewards learning!
Likelihood to Recommend
Bacula Enterprise is not the easiest backup software to work with--you are expected to be competent at the command line and editing complex configuration files, even if you mostly use the web GUI for day-to-day operations. However, study is rewarded--you can do many very complex things. Easy things may not always be easy, but very hard things are possible (unlike many competitors that make easy things easy and hard things impossible).

I would not recommend Bacula to someone who just wants a quick plug and play solution; but in my opinion your backups and disaster recovery system shouldn't be plug and play - that's a great way to feel good about a solution that won't actually work for you when it's needed!

Backup tool that delivers more than it promises

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 12, 2022
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our company relies heavily on Bacula Enterprise these days. For three years we have been using Bacula Enterprise as disaster recovery and backup solution. We currently use it as a tool for managing backups of servers, files, and databases, with more than 2Tb of data. Our data are linked to historical and current data in hydrographic areas. The adoption of Bacula Enterprise as a tool provided us with reliability and less deduplication of our data.
Pros
  • Highly configurable.
  • Good scalability.
  • Easy installation and integration into company policies.
  • Ease of maintenance of backup routines.
  • Reliability in data recovery.
Cons
  • Ease of adapting the interface for less experienced users.
  • Small learning curve, but worth it after some time of use.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Bacula Enterprise tool is recommended for use by any companies that need a data backup and recovery solution that is adaptable and scalable, regardless of the size of the data and the company. The installation of the tool will not impact the company's policies and there are great possibilities for integration with the IT environment and tools. A less appropriate scenario is if your company does not have a team with minimal backup experience, but this is remedied by the excellent support offered.

Bacula Enterprise Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 03, 2020
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Bacula Enterprise is being used in the university's Rectory, covering all the main systems of the institution. We perform backups of our systems, stored on tapes and other storage. Backups are performed daily, including full, incremental, and differential backups. Our backups are divided into daily, weekly, and advanced backups, with reduced retention of 7 days for 1 year. Currently, we use some plugins like MySQL, Postgres, Ldap, Docker, and S3.
Pros
  • A robust and reliable solution
  • Intuitive Bweb web interface
  • Text console administration
  • Storage on different devices
  • Good compression rate
  • Easy restore process
Cons
  • More reporting options
Likelihood to Recommend
I think that Bacula Enterprise is suitable in several scenarios, as it allows configuring your backup system in an intuitive way using BWEB, despite having a relatively high learning curve, in addition to plugins that make it possible to improve backup and restore specific applications. My usage experience is at a medium-sized university, in which we are currently working within a virtualized environment and we are migrating our environment to the cloud.

The Bacula Enterprise backup solution may not be suitable for very small environments with few applications, perhaps an alternative is the community version.
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