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April 28, 2021

Bacula - An OpenSource Backup Solution That's Growing Up

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Score 4 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • The obvious answer to this question is that it has saved our company a substantial amount of money. We do have a support contract with Bacula, and had to go back and forth with them and our legal department to clear up which county's laws would rule in a dispute, but we finally got that hashed out. It isn't free, but it isn't close to what we were spending for support previously with EMC Networker.
  • The downside to the reduced cost of ownership is that it comes with reduced timeliness of support. If something breaks on a Saturday at 2:00 a.m., we aren't going to get support on it until sometime Monday, and even then the problem likely won't be fixed on Monday either.
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November 11, 2020

Extremely impressive support staff for a complex product

Daniel Drucker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Daniel Drucker
Score 8 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • What price can you put on recovery? The very first time we had to restore from backup, having Bacula Enterprise support paid for itself.
  • The extremely good visibility into Bacula Enterprise's operations--as opposed to some competitors where you don't really know what it's doing--makes me trust it more.
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June 03, 2020

Bacula Enterprise Review

Luís Henrique Gonçalves de Aguiar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luís Henrique Gonçalves de Aguiar
Score 9 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Bacula Enterprise shows a positive return on investment. When it comes to backup, it is difficult to calculate.
  • The institution I work for is a public university, where information security has incalculable benefits.
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June 02, 2020

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Ernesto Veiga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ernesto Veiga
Score 10 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • The return on investment has been totally positive--avoiding failures, data loss, and consequently other losses for the municipality.
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June 02, 2020

Professional and reliable backup.

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Score 10 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Extremely positive impact due to our information being important to the institution's activities.
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August 06, 2019

Indepth backup recovery product which has matured nicely

Brian O'Connell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brian O'Connell
Score 9 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • 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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October 17, 2019

Bacula Enterprise - Reliable backup & recovery for your enterprise

Paul D Simpson | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Reduced backup licensing & support costs by ~60%
  • Enabled us to script criteria to include or exclude systems from backup jobs automatically. Time Saver!
  • Amazing! Absolutely Amazing support experiences!
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October 08, 2019

The most powerful backup tool on the market.

Rogerio Goncalves | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • The firm was able to consolidate 3 or more backup tools using Bacula Enterprise.
  • The firm achieved a quantity of backup jobs within a backup window that no other tool had achieved before using the same infrastructure.
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September 29, 2019

Fully featured and flexible backup product that makes me like doing backups again

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Score 8 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Bacula Enterprise is competitively priced which lowers the overall cost compared to the alternatives.
  • Bacula Enterprise enabled us to improve our backup availability by allowing backups to both disk and tape, whilst meeting our policies for having backups securely stored offsite.
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October 17, 2019

Bacula, the backup power

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Score 9 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Bacula meets our backup needs
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June 06, 2019

Bacula Enterprise Review

Nick Bebout | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Bacula Enterprise has allowed us to have more reliable backups at a lower cost than some other solutions we had explored.
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June 20, 2019

Bacula does the job well

Amit Sontakey | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Very positive impact on our ROI. Very well priced for the functionalities that Bacula provides as a backup and restore utility.
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August 04, 2017

Armazem Paraiba Protects Itself with Bacula Systems

Rubens Urquisa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rubens Urquisa
Score 9 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Quite transparently for the applications to allow online backup and guaranteed enough confidence due to its efficient algorithms of verification of media and blocks.
  • The cost of purchasing and updating the annual support is very low compared to other "Veeam and Backup Exec" tools that I analyzed in the pre-project phase.
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May 13, 2019

Bacula - A Backup Storage Solution That is Easy to Trust

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Score 9 out of 10
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Return on Investment

  • Bacula provides my company with the confidence that no data is ever truly lost - the recovery options available to us are highly reliable and straightforward
  • Simplifying our backup and restore methodology with Bacula has saved our organization a tremendous amount of money over other software stacks and deployment models.
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Bacula Enterprise Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (25)
9.7
Likelihood to Renew (2)
9.1
Usability (3)
7.2
Support Rating (16)
9.5

Feature Scorecard Summary

Data Center Backup
8.2
Universal recovery (1)
9.1
Live recovery (6)
8.2
Recovery verification (16)
8.0
Business application protection (2)
3.0
Multiple backup destinations (21)
9.0
Incremental backup identification (21)
8.8
Backup to the cloud (11)
9.7
Deduplication and file compression (16)
8.9
Snapshots (13)
8.6
Flexible deployment (19)
7.4
Management dashboard (19)
7.8
Platform support (21)
8.5
Retention options (21)
8.5
Encryption (12)
9.5

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.
Categories:  Disk Based Backup,  Endpoint Backup,  Data Center Backup

Bacula Enterprise Features

Data Center Backup Features

Has featureLive recovery
Has featureRecovery verification
Has featureMultiple backup destinations
Has featureIncremental backup identification
Has featureBackup to the cloud
Has featureDeduplication and file compression
Has featureSnapshots
Has featureFlexible deployment
Has featureManagement dashboard
Has featurePlatform support
Has featureRetention options
Has featureEncryption

Bacula Enterprise Integrations

Amazon API Gateway, VMware ESXi, SAP HANA, Google Cloud CDN, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) (formerly RHEV), Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer), Docker and persistent data, Kuberbetes Clusters, Oracle Cloud, MSSQL, SAP (Sybase) ASE, KVM, Active Directory / LDAP, Xen, Oracle DB, SWIFT Cloud Storage

Bacula Enterprise Competitors

Bacula Enterprise Technical Details

Deployment Types:On-premise
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Suse, OpenSuse
Mobile Application:Android

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bacula Enterprise?

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

What is Bacula Enterprise's best feature?

Reviewers rate Backup to the cloud highest, with a score of 9.7.

Who uses Bacula Enterprise?

The most common users of Bacula Enterprise are from Enterprises and the Government Administration industry.