Bacula Enterprise Review
June 03, 2020

Bacula Enterprise Review

Luís Henrique Gonçalves de Aguiar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bacula Enterprise

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
  • 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.
The contract support in Brazil does a good job, solving the problems and doubts presented with agility and efficiency. We had a little difficulty due to the language supported by the Bacula matrix, but not any major problems.

Do you think Bacula Enterprise delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Bacula Enterprise's feature set?

Yes

Did Bacula Enterprise live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Bacula Enterprise go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Bacula Enterprise again?

Yes

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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.

Bacula Enterprise Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
10.0
Instant recovery
Not Rated
Recovery verification
Not Rated
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
Not Rated
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
Not Rated
Management dashboard
10
Platform support
10
Retention options
10
Encryption
Not Rated

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