Bacula Enterprise vs Dell NetWorker comparison

Bacula Systems and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #25 with an average rating of 10.0, while Dell Technologies is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0. Bacula Systems holds a 0.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell NetWorker and Bacula Enterprise are two leading data protection solutions. Bacula Enterprise is preferred for its comprehensive feature set, although Dell NetWorker often receives positive feedback for its support and pricing. Bacula Enterprise appears superior due to its feature richness and adaptability.

Features: Dell NetWorker offers robust backup capabilities, efficient data recovery options, and straightforward deployment. Bacula Enterprise provides scalability, open-source flexibility, and extensive customization options.

Room for Improvement: Dell NetWorker could improve integration with various platforms, speed of recovery tasks, and advanced reporting. Bacula Enterprise should simplify the setup process, enhance documentation, and further streamline deployment processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell NetWorker deployment is generally straightforward, with satisfactory support. Bacula Enterprise has a steeper learning curve and could benefit from more streamlined deployment processes, though its customer service is highly praised.

Pricing and ROI: Dell NetWorker is considered cost-effective with decent ROI but may incur additional costs for comprehensive support. Bacula Enterprise, perceived as more expensive, offers a higher ROI due to its robust feature set and scalability, leading users to feel its pricing is justified.

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (18th)

Dell NetWorker

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell NetWorker is 3.1%, up from 3.0% 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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ErmiasGirma

System and Cloud Deployment Engineer at Safaricom Ethiopia plc

Offers seamless integration and cost-saving benefits with enhanced recovery capabilities

Currently, in my organization, I am using Dell NetWorker for open-source solutions like PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, and some large VM environments. It also supports the Dell library and is used for the library archiving system Dell NetWorker allows for extensive customization, supporting…

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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

"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."

"Bacula is pretty stable."

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

"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."

"The solution has a longer lifespan."

"It is an extremely stable product."

"The solution is very user-friendly. After setting up five machines for our customers we teach them how to set up the agent and start doing their backups. It is very easy for them once they see how to do it, they like to do it on their own."

"The GUI is user-friendly."

"The software implementation takes about 30 minutes."

"The most valuable feature is NetWorker's integration with the data domain that transfers the data directly into the Dell appliance, so the data doesn't need to pass through the network. NetWorker acts like a pipe, allowing the data to flow directly from the database or the VMware environment to the data domain."

"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."

"It integrates well with Dell's Data Domain as a backup storage solution."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

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

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

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

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

"There are some limitations regarding scalability of the product."

"There should be more vendors incorporated into the solution."

"It would be beneficial to have a single user interface for all of the features."

"There could be a possibility of constructing full backups from incremental data intelligently."

"The user interface is hard to use, it should be simplified. There are a lot of web-based management interfaces which they should consider."

"The security features need backup and encryption. It would be nice if they added this feature. I would also like to be able to decrypt when restoring the security features. Hackers can sense these vulnerabilities today, and we need to have our enterprise prepared."

"It is not easy to understand and deploy. It is complex in nature. Simplicity is not there. When we deploy it, the customer always needs some training from us. To make it user friendly, there should be one agent that can be used to back up every product. Dell EMC NetWorker uses so many user agents. In PowerProtect Data Manager, you can just install its VM, import that VM into vCenter, and you can start to do backups directly from vCenter. However, in Dell EMC NetWorker, you always need one server, and from that server, you need to initiate all backups. You must know the interface and the CLI. It is not user friendly. It would be a great feature if we can deploy Dell EMC NetWorker on a virtual machine, like Avamar. The additional features that are required in Dell EMC NetWorker are already available in PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar. Therefore, there is no need to enhance Dell EMC NetWorker. It would be better if they can just rename it to PowerProtect Data Manager or Avamar."

"Management of the software is a little bit hazy and not easy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

"It's approximate, but I believe we pay around $20-30,000 a month in licensing."

"You have to buy the deduplication software separately from the license."

"I have a capacity-based license, but I don't know the exact cost of that license."

"Low cost is key."

"Dell NetWorker has two types of licensing models."

"The pricing is okay."

"Earlier, users had to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs of the product. The licenses were expensive but users used to get the best device to use."

"The price of the solution could be lower, it is expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

19%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What do you like most about Dell NetWorker?

The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell NetWorker?

The licensing cost is somewhat expensive. While we use a traditional license, there is a capacity-based license available, but our customer is not comfortable switching to it. A five to seven perce...

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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.

Bacula Systems

Built on a reputation of efficiency and reliability, thousands of customers trust Dell NetWorker to protect their data and applications across multiple environments, from core to edge to cloud.

Inherently flexible, NetWorker helps you deploy and leverage the data protection that fits your needs. NetWorker protects both physical and virtual environments, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as cloud workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

NetWorker is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. NetWorker is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

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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.

Republic Bank, Westgate Resorts, Macquire Cloud Services, Shriners, Panatonni, Qatar Islamic Bank, Eurosport

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