Bacula Enterprise vs Bareos comparison

Bacula Systems and Bareos are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Bacula Systems is ranked #17 with an average rating of 10.0, while Bareos is ranked #21 with an average rating of 9.0. Bacula Systems holds a 2.1% mindshare in CB, compared to Bareos’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Bareos users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

Bareos

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100% willing to recommend

Bacula Enterprise

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Bareos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Cloud Backup

17th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (26th)

Bareos

Ranking in Cloud Backup

21st

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 2.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bareos is 2.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Davilson Aguiar

Analista Tecnologia Banco de Dados at Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação

Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression

It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company. A managerial user who wants more information beyond the operational technician should be able to access it. It could include greater transparency regarding the volume of data trafficked on the network, as well as the expectation of deduplication. A more practical strategy could come with a backup policy model as a suggestion for both large and small companies. A simple suggestion is to visually implement the backup time as far as your physical media.

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GiovanniRamirez

Senior IT Consultant at Xerif

High-performance backup with fast recovery and robust encryption features

I use Gluster as a backup. In fact, my company has a product called xBackup, which is completely based on Gluster. It includes various tools and technologies for high-performance backup, including solid-state technologies and mechanical disks, among others. Additionally, I use various other…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Bacula is pretty stable."

"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."

"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."

"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."

"Bacula is very solid, very stable, and very scalable."

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

"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."

"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."

"Bareos offers encryption on the fly, compression on the fly, and a robust and stable configuration."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users."

Cons

"Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability."

"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."

"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."

"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."

"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

"Bacula needs a graphical user interface because, for administrators, the command-line interface is okay, but for the average user it is not very easy."

"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."

"The virtual machine backup is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."

"Improvement is needed in the graphical web administration tool."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a perpetual license."

"This is an open-source solution."

"I use the open-source version of Bareos, which means I used the free version of the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

University

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

14%

University

14%

Non Profit

11%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bacula Enterprise?

Bacula is more expensive than various other solutions. It’s almost completely commercial now. Products like Veeam software are much more expensive.

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What needs improvement with Bacula Enterprise?

Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability.

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What is your primary use case for Bacula Enterprise?

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...

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What do you like most about Bareos?

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bareos?

The open-source version of Bareos, along with their commercial support plans, offer very fair pricing and good value.

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What needs improvement with Bareos?

Improvement is needed in the graphical web administration tool. Although everything can be done via the command line, an improved graphical interface would be more comfortable. I've seen improvemen...

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Bacula Systems

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Overview

Bacula Enterprise is a highly scalable, especially robust and secure data backup and recovery software. Its unique low cost subscription model empowers data centers to truly escape data volume price traps. With a high degree of flexibility and customizability, Bacula offers native integration with a wide range of hypervisors, databases, file systems, cloud interfaces and containers. High numbers of enterprise organizations worldwide (incl. NASA, Bank of Austria, Swisscom or Sky PLC) have adopted Bacula Enterprise backup software in mission critical environments because of its advanced features and ability to handle high data volume at very low cost.

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a cross-network Open Source backup solution which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

Sample Customers

NASA, SwissCom, Navisite, Turner Studios, Bank Austria, Caixa Bank, SdV Plurimedia, Leibniz University Hannover, Zeta Global, Tricore, NetLog, Siemens, LocaWeb, wbsGo, itesys, Queens School of Computing, Escrypt.

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