Bacula Enterprise Reviews

The last scenario in which I used Bacula was for a customer who needed some open-source tool which could support encryption at that time. We managed to convince the customer to use Bacula to deploy it in their environment.

It was a very good project. The Bacula concept, topology, and networking configuration for backup originated there and now continue to be utilized in other solutions.

We use the solution as a complete backup solution for virtual machines and databases in Prodap - Data Processing in Amapá. Its very lean and simple architecture, with its deduplications not covering our network, made our traffic around 60% lighter. 

We also like the efficiency of data compression. Even the full dump performed had a gain of around 40%. In our scenario, the DBA team liked it as it wasn't tied to a single database solution. We had a single problem with the OS that many of our operating systems are outdated, however, even so they have a data repository for old versions.

The impact was well evaluated by the data center team here at our organization. It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light. 

Its entire structure is a click away and the dashboard is very presentable to the technical user. It has good management for the more technical user. We have around 300 VMs and we are implementing them through jobs. 

It is well organized. Even the triggering of alerts can be organized, so monitoring is not confusing. We have a list here at the company to the centralized email.

Bacula is an extremely versatile backup tool. 

We have been using it for several years and we are very satisfied with how easy it is to configure and set up and run backups. 

We have petabytes of images to backup on a daily basis. We have five servers constantly creating images and Bacula makes it easy to organize the images and backup the data. 

We like how the backup can be queued to run as one big stream on the tape, rather than having the tape run back and forth or stopping between files. This saves us on tape wear and tear. 

Bacula plays an important role in our data backups.  

Bacula has improved our organization by making it easy to backup the required images and being able to organize the ones that need longer retention periods and the ones that don't. We like how Bacuala is flexible in configuring jobs and schedules. 

Data backups are always an issue of great importance for our organization and with this product, we get that. Having a tool like this gives us peace of mind in terms of capacity, which is essential to our company.

We have three central servers, each one backing up the machines on their respective site. We have a combination of servers and other storage devices.

It is a standard backup solution where we have an incremental backup every night. We do a differential backup on Sundays and then a full backup on a monthly basis. We also do a restore task once a month to verify the backup.

A few years ago, we had a big crash that involved one of the backup servers. We were able to fully restore the backup, even after losing the indexes.

We are a government agency, a Legislative Chamber, and we produce information on legislation and also content for public television. All this data needs protection and availability, quickly, even in the event of a serious failure of our environment. We use everything from Unix-Like servers (FreeBSD, RHEL, Debian) to Windows servers. There are also Oracle, MariaDB, and SQLServer databases. We have a very heterogeneous environment.

Bacula Enterprise converges with our needs. It has plugins for all our systems and databases.

Bacula is extremely easy to use - both for performing backups and restoring. It guarantees a horizontal growth of your structure in a very simple and uncomplicated way.

Performing a restore or a point-in-time backup is simple and fast. In addition, Bacula Enterprise generates a very low load on the data network structure while not causing major discomfort to end-users.

A point that is undoubtedly extremely relevant is their support. The professionals are always willing to solve our demands quickly and with high quality.

We are a solution provider and this is one of the backup products that we implement for our clients.

The most valuable feature is the support for Linux servers.

We've got a health care enterprise that holds a lot of refined and personal data that should be safe even after a complete system crash. Our environment is widely heterogeneous using Linux, Windows, and OSX as operating and PostgreSQL, Oracle, SAP HANA, and MySQL as database management systems.

The ease in getting reliable backups of different platforms has been the motivation for choosing Bacula Enterprise Systems.  

It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers. Our developers often have to get data that has been used some while ago. Bacula Enterprise provides an easy and reliable way to restore the desired data from tapes, disks, or even other storage sources.

Even if we encounter any problems using the software, Bacula Enterprise has outstanding support. Problems are solved within a very short period of time.    

I am Bacula Enterprise's executive distributor in Russia. 

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Bacula Enterprise is used for backups for our clients from various banks.

The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization.