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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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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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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, Veritas 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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Bacula Enterprise is a versatile backup tool widely used by businesses to ensure the safety and accessibility of their data. Users praise the software's flexibility, power, and adaptability to accommodate ongoing changes and evolving needs. For example, the BGW Group relies on Bacula Enterprise to perform daily backups of their company servers, which consist of a mix of physical and virtual machines running different operating systems. The software's comprehensive backup solution supports plugins for MySQL, Postgres, LDAP, Docker, and S3, making it an ideal choice for universities like the Rectory, where it performs daily backups of critical systems. Similarly, CloudHQ values Bacula Enterprise for its reliability in backup and restore operations across their mixed Windows/Linux environment. The Brazilian Naval Supply System Command depends on Bacula Enterprise for efficient backup and restore of their database, taking advantage of its advanced features and ability to handle high volumes of data. Additionally, individuals and organizations use Bacula Enterprise as a cost-effective and flexible solution for data backup and restore needs. Government facilities employ the software to protect meteorological and hydrographic data while ensuring fast restoration capabilities, serving as their last line of defense against encryption attacks. With its value-for-money proposition and simple management interface, Bacula Enterprise is trusted by many companies to centralize backup solutions for heterogeneous systems. It provides compatibility with different environments and expertly handles monitoring, encryption, secure cloud support, and multi-platform compatibility. Municipalities such as Campinas rely on Bacula Enterprise as their primary backup tool for structured and unstructured data across various applications and operating systems. In the case of McLean Imaging Center, Bacula Enterprise backs up servers, databases, virtualized environments, applications, and shared files – delivering an effective backup framework for disaster recovery purposes. Furthermore, users leverage Bacula Enterprise's extreme security measures and fast data recovery capabilities for tasks such as restoring lost files or performing bare metal recoveries. The software's efficiency, compression, and storage reduction capabilities have garnered high regard from the data recovery industry. Bacula Enterprise is used in different scenarios, including by technical teams managing big projects, organizations performing file-based backups, and government facilities aiming to make backups accessible. Its centralized management features, user-friendly graphical interface, and support for various operating systems are highly appreciated by users across industries. With a focus on agility and security, Bacula Enterprise is the go-to backup solution for organizations with virtualized environments, physical servers, files, and databases. It caters to a wide range of backup needs, such as daily backup maintenance, data recovery from servers and databases, and compliance with legal agreements. Bacula Enterprise offers centralized management through a graphical interface, allowing multi-user access and providing solutions to various backup problems. The software's simple and efficient interface automates backup tasks and supports different operating systems. It is frequently used for backup and restore of virtual machines, file servers, email accounts, ACLS, active directory, and databases like Oracle and PostgreSQL. Users appreciate the optimization of backup workflows, resulting in faster routines and enhanced data security. Whether it's a department within an organization or the entire corporate technological environment, Bacula Enterprise is chosen as the backup solution for extensive information systems. From backing up physical servers, virtual machines, files, and databases to managing backups across multiple data centers, Bacula Enterprise proves its value with cost-effectiveness, efficient compression, and storage reduction capabilities. Users have reported positive experiences with the software's quick response times and helpful support from the support team. With its ease of administration and good cost-benefit ratio compared to traditional solutions, Bacula Enterprise is considered an effective choice for businesses seeking reliable data protection across a diverse range of systems.

Efficient Backup Process: Many users have found the backup process of Bacula to be efficient, allowing them to specify file size for backups and easily locate and restore their data. This pro has been mentioned by several reviewers, highlighting its effectiveness in streamlining the backup process.

Complex and Flexible Scheduling System: The complex and efficient scheduling system of Bacula has received praise from a number of users. They appreciate the customization options and flexibility it offers, allowing them to tailor their backup schedules according to their specific needs.

Data Deduplication Feature: Users have commended the data deduplication feature of Bacula, which helps optimize storage by eliminating duplicate data. This valuable feature has been mentioned by multiple reviewers as it contributes to more efficient use of storage resources.

Outdated Backup Storage Format: Some users have found the backup storage format in Bacula Enterprise to be outdated, lacking deduplication support. They feel that this hampers the efficiency and effectiveness of their backups.

Inconsistent Support for Filesystem Snapshots on Non-Windows Platforms: Several reviewers have complained about the inconsistent support for filesystem snapshots on non-Windows platforms in Bacula Enterprise. This limitation poses challenges for users who rely on these platforms for their backup processes.

Interface Needs Improvement: Users have expressed frustration with the interface of Bacula Enterprise, both graphical and CLI, stating that it still needs improvement. They find it unintuitive and not user-friendly, which can slow down their workflow and make it difficult to navigate the software effectively.

Users recommend Bacula for its data security, low cost, and guaranteed updates and support. They suggest that Bacula may not be the easiest backup software to work with, but it offers the capability to perform complex tasks. To maximize its potential, users advise taking the time to familiarize oneself with Bacula. They also recommend testing and evaluating Bacula among other backup solutions before making a purchase. Users emphasize the steep learning curve of Bacula and recommend taking Bacula Enterprise training. Bacula is praised for being a cost-effective and robust backup solution. Users mention the availability of a repository with all necessary packages and helpful documentation for specific use cases. The helpfulness of Bacula's support team is also highlighted by users. Finally, users consider Bacula as the option for backup, especially for disaster recovery purposes.

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BACULA best cost benefit on the market

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 28, 2024
DA
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
10 years of experience
The use of Bacula is much more appropriate in our experience here in Prodap in full backup very fast to its compression. We like it for Baculaflexible and be used in various storage formats and not be tied to a single database, not to mention that we can use compression algorithms such as gzip open code.

Bacula Enterprise is the Best Corporate Backup System Currently

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 27, 2024
LS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
4 years of experience
Without a doubt, I recommend Bacula as a corporate backup solution to meet any and all needs within a company. The main uses are related to system file backup, virtual machine backup (VMWare and Hyper-V), Database. We have a catalog with a record of +700TB of data and the catalog DB only has 700GB of information from this data, which represents a very large space saving in relation to the total size of backups.

Bacula Enterprise: A necessary investment with a guaranteed return

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 13, 2024
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
6 years of experience
As stated before, the system is agnostic, and its implementation can be carried out in any environment, as long as there is a team to implement and maintain it or a support contract suitable for the needs of your organization. Due to its wide compatibility, it can be used in mixed environments, such as prepared with disks and tape libraries, as well as in cloud environments.

The Best Corporate Backup Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 09, 2024
ML
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
10 years of experience
Bacula Enterprise is excellent, stable and reliable for centralizing backup monitoring, task automation and cloud backup

Great Backup system

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 08, 2024
LS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
5 years of experience
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

Bacula Evaluation of Bacula Enterprise in a hospital environment.nterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 08, 2024
AF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
1 year of experience
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

Bacula Enterprise is a great backup solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 08, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
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.

Bacula Enterprise for Lawyers

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 07, 2024
EA
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
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.

The best backup system

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 06, 2024
RP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
Bacula Enterprise can be used in environments of different sizes, that is, from a small business to a large industry. Everything will depend on how it will be provisioned. There is no size limitation for your company. However, it is necessary that you have full knowledge of backup policies in order to make the best use of the tool.

Sleep peacefully with Bacula Enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 01, 2023
GW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
5 years of experience
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.

TSM Convert

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 06, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
1 year of experience
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.
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.

So many features but great value for money.

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 14, 2023
AP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
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

Bacula Enterprise - Compression using, restore and dedup

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 02, 2022
WF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
1 year of experience
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.

The best

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 22, 2022
EC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
Bacula Enterprise is absolutely suitable for large database backup and advanced restore for companies that want to have a great backup system at an affordable price. The bacula enterprise becomes less accessible and difficult for companies that have employees with low professional qualifications because they need a qualified professional to operate the bacula.

Backup tool that makes everyday life easier for your team

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 16, 2022
TN
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
Bacula Enterprise is an excellent tool for a company that needs to perform automated data backup, whether the volume is large or small. If it is necessary to reduce data deduplication and also transfer to tapes, so that this data is stored longer. Bacula Enterprise is a complete and simple tool, if your company doesn't have the need to automate backups and manage these routines, there wouldn't be much collaboration in the use of this tool.

Reliable backup tool for businesses of any size

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 14, 2022
PR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
The fundamental situation for using the Bacula Enterprise tool for us was the reliability for restoring data and managing backup routines. Even if your team is not an expert, the support team quickly responds to needs. The tool is very simple to use, so with daily use, the adaptation is very quick. It is advised that the company has well-structured backup governance.

Flexible, fast and simple Backup Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 14, 2022
AC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
Bacula Enterprise is indicated for scenarios where there is a need to store large volumes of data and reliability in the recovery of this data. Bacula is also highly configurable, which makes it easier for the responsible team to manage Backup Jobs. A negative point is the use of some plugins that could be free, but there was no need to acquire any other functionality in the implementation of the system.

Bacula helpd us manage our backup routines

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 14, 2022
Bacula is well suited for companies that need to configure and manage several jobs and schedules for backups. And it is still good even if your system is growing in both data and servers. The tool has provided us with a fast and reliable way to restore and recover our data. The downside was that at first, our team had a hard time with the initial setup since they had only basic knowledge of the command line, but this was overcome after a while.

Reliable, practical and easy data recovery backup tool.

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 12, 2022
It is suitable for backing up files that are updated daily. We use Bacula to backup various files in virtual machines. It is centralized management through a graphical interface and is released for multi-users. This solves our problem as it is easy and fast to recover data in case of a disaster.

Amazing support for the client

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 12, 2022
EP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
3 years of experience
The integration of Bacula with the Database and also with the tool used for managing virtual machines was perfectly implemented. Being easily manageable through the Bacula interface. The interface, although simple, requires knowledge for backup, but with time and use by the team, this difficulty ceases to exist. In a short time, my entire team was able to learn how to use the tool.

Backup tool that delivers more than it promises

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 12, 2022
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.

Best Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution I ever used

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 30, 2022
JL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
Regardless of the size of data and your company, Bacula Enterprise can be used as a solution to manage backup jobs and also as a solution for disaster recovery. In addition, the cost of the tool is also a major attraction, as it was one of the great motivators for the adoption of Bacula Enterprise. A scenario where it is not advisable is if your company does not have a team with some experience in Backup solutions.

A Complete and Efficient Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 14, 2022
WJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
Bacula Enterprise is great for medium and large data centers due to its scalability and robustness. However, I know of small businesses that use it successfully. The amount of Storage Daemons installed is unlimited, so it is possible to have different NAS-type storage equipment and tape libraries on different machines, with load balancing and/or failover.

Bacula Enterprise - The only Backup and Restore solution in my opinion

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 13, 2022
TN
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bacula Enterprise
2 years of experience
I would recommend Bacula Enterprise in any scenario where the user needs a Backup solution, even though it is a difficult software to handle, the possibility of things it can do, and the cost benefit, is enough to consider Bacula Enterprise the only efficient solution. Just study a little deeper.
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