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Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
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2020
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9.3
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9.1
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Platform support (31)
9.0
90%
Retention options (31)
8.8
88%
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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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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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Data Center Backup
8.7
87%
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: Live 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
Bacula Enterprise Integrations
- Amazon API Gateway
- VMware ESXi
- SAP HANA Cloud
- 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 |
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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 are Bacula Enterprise's top competitors?
Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, and IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager are common alternatives for Bacula Enterprise.
What is Bacula Enterprise's best feature?
Reviewers rate Backup to the cloud and Encryption highest, with a score of 10.
Who uses Bacula Enterprise?
The most common users of Bacula Enterprise are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Government Administration industry.
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- Bacula Enterprise helped me reducing my backup licensing costs
- Bacula Enterprise reduced the amount of necessary storage space with deduplication
- Bacula Enterprise automation helped me reduce the number of required backup administration staff
- Among all the adjectives I could give to Bacula Enterprise, the one that most motivated us to join was the cost benefit.
June 09, 2022
Bacula is an extremely reliable, adaptable, and secure backup tool that guarantees the company's backups.
- Return on investment in perpetual licensing model with a reduced annual cost for guaranteed updates and support
- Guaranteed short-time data restoration
- Data security with encryption
June 07, 2022
Professional and reliable backup.
- Extremely positive impact due to our information being important to the institution's activities.
- Data security with encryption
- Reliable and expansive database
- Instant restoration of files, folders, virtual machines, etc.
- Customer Service Satisfaction Survey for the File Restoration category rose and remained at 100%
- User data restore time
- Savings in the license model that allows us to increase the amount of data without paying extra for it.
- The fact of having the possibility of having multiple backup locations simultaneously, in addition to their encryption, guarantees that it is possible, in a feasible way, to perform a disaster recovery.
- Due to deduplication, disk storage is optimized, making backups take up little space on storage volumes and, consequently, require a low investment in disks and storage.
- Also regarding dedup, the tool implements it effectively, dramatically accelerating backup and restore speed, optimizing recovery time (RTO)
- The tool has always been positive at all times when it was necessary to restore data, whether from a simple email account to very important data such as the company's database, when a disk damaged the bacula it served us perfectly in the restoration, the impact it would be much worse if we didn't have the tool to run the database.
- Bacula Enterprise allowed us to increase our backup capacity by increasing performance.
- Bacula Enterprise allowed us to increase our backup capacity by being licensed by the host and not by size.
May 19, 2022
Friendly and Reliable Tool.
- I believe that since the implementation it is already giving feedback because the previous solution was totally outdated and problematic.
- Unfortunately, I can't provide values because I don't have access to my sector's finance.
- Very Important to have Backup and recovery procedure in ISO Audit
April 29, 2021
Bacula - An OpenSource Backup Solution That's Growing Up
- 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.
November 11, 2020
Extremely impressive support staff for a complex product
- 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.
June 03, 2020
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- 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.
June 03, 2020
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- The return on investment has been totally positive--avoiding failures, data loss, and consequently other losses for the municipality.
June 02, 2020
The best backup system
- Data availability.
- Reliability and file retention.
- Data security.
May 18, 2020
Bacula Enterprise for Server Backups/Restores
- Faster backups has reduced the required backup window.
December 04, 2019
Overall experience with Bacula Enterprise
- Cost is billed at host based model and not storage based scenario.
November 30, 2019
Bacula is great for backups and restores
- Restores are done as fast as the underlying hardware can provide.
November 18, 2019
A reliable enterprise backup solution
- A dependable solution. It's difficult to provide numbers for ROI of a product you wish to "never need to depend upon" :-)
October 17, 2019
Bacula, the backup power
- Bacula meets our backup needs
- 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!
October 08, 2019
The most powerful backup tool on the market.
- 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.
- 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.
August 06, 2019
Indepth backup recovery product which has matured nicely
- 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.