Pros and Cons of Bacula Enterprise 2025

Overview

What is Bacula Enterprise?

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

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,...

Davilson Aguiar

Administrator - Engineering

ANALISTA TECNOLOGIA BANCO DE DADOS

Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação - PRODAP

10 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...

Luis Silva

Analyst - Information Technology

Analista de Suporte SR

Datacom

4 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 ...

Marcelo Miranda

Team Lead - Information Technology

Infrastructure, Networks and Telecommunications Coordinator

Câmara Municipal de Campinas

6 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...

Marco Lima

Manager - Information Technology

Corporate Infrastructure Project Manager

Claro Brasil

10 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...

André Fernando Pereira

Analyst - Information Technology

IT Analyst

HU-UFGD - EBSERH

1 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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Features

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

9.4

Avg 8.4

9.1
Universal recovery
(1) Ratings
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
10
Instant recovery
(37) Ratings
Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly
10
Recovery verification
(45) Ratings
Recovery verification is automated testing and verification of backups
3
Business application protection
(2) Ratings
Protection of all applications running in the data center
10
Multiple backup destinations
(50) Ratings
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
10
Incremental backup identification
(51) Ratings
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
10
Backup to the cloud
(31) Ratings
Ability to store and back up data to the cloud
9.8
Deduplication and file compression
(44) Ratings
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
10
Snapshots
(39) Ratings
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
10
Flexible deployment
(47) Ratings
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
9.5
Management dashboard
(49) Ratings
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
10
Platform support
(51) Ratings
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
9.8
Retention options
(52) Ratings
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
10
Encryption
(41) Ratings
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

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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

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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

Bacula Enterprise Video

Bacula Enterprise Edition (www.baculasystems.com/products/bacula-enterprise) is the modern data backup, restore and disaster recovery solution that does not penalize you for data volume. Bacula Enterprise Edition is a subscription-based enterprise data backup solution which ...

Bacula Enterprise Integrations

Amazon API Gateway
VMware ESXi
SAP HANA Cloud
Google Cloud CDN
Hyper-V
Proxmox VE
Microsoft Entra ID
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

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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Bacula Enterprise: A necessary investment with a guaranteed return

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 13, 2024

Marcelo Miranda

Infrastructure, Networks and Telecommunications Coordinator

Câmara Municipal de Campinas (Government Administration, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

6 years of experience

Pros

Backup Duplication and Deduplication
Database backup like MySQL and Oracle
Backup and fast restore of mailboxes

Cons

Our team always points out the same problems, I believe that, today, is our biggest complaint: The interface (both graphical and the CLI) still needs improvement.
There is no mobile app to manage backups and restores from smartphones
Manual installation is time consuming.

BACULA best cost benefit on the market

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 28, 2024

Davilson Aguiar

ANALISTA TECNOLOGIA BANCO DE DADOS

Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação - PRODAP (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

10 years of experience

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Pros

Data compression
Deduplication
Support most storage devices
Nice Visual Management
Give to manage via command line
Ease of learning

Cons

Making the transport of large volumes of data more transparent
Use XFS disks as they are faster for database

Bacula Enterprise is the Best Corporate Backup System Currently

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 27, 2024

Luis Silva

Analista de Suporte SR

Datacom (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

4 years of experience

Pros

Confidence
Stability
Speed

Cons

Improve the graphical interface so that reports absorb data such as performance and capacity
On the mainboard, a specific management environment for backing up VMWare or HyperV virtual machines could be available
Generation of detailed logs in real time to identify a possible problem faster