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Bacula Enterprise vs IDERA SQL Safe Backup comparison

Bacula Systems and IDERA are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #25 with an average rating of 10.0, while IDERA is ranked #87. Bacula Systems holds a 0.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to IDERA’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 33% of IDERA users who would recommend it.
Bacula Enterprise
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90% willing to recommend
IDERA SQL Safe Backup
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33% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Bacula Enterprise and IDERA SQL Safe Backup are both popular backup solutions. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is viewed as superior due to its performance and perceived value for money.

Features: Bacula Enterprise offers a wide range of backup options, robust security, and scalability. IDERA SQL Safe Backup provides high performance, ease of use in database backup, and fast recovery times.

Room for Improvement: Bacula Enterprise users note that the software can be complex to configure and suggest an easier learning curve. IDERA SQL Safe Backup users mention the need for more advanced reporting tools and better support for non-SQL environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bacula Enterprise's deployment can be challenging due to its complexity, but it offers reliable customer service. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is easier to deploy with straightforward installation and excellent customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Bacula Enterprise is seen as cost-effective with a satisfactory ROI, though the initial setup is noted to be costly. IDERA SQL Safe Backup has higher pricing but delivers a high ROI due to its performance levels.

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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
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (18th)
IDERA SQL Safe Backup
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
87th
Average Rating
5.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (18th)
 

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 IDERA SQL Safe Backup is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Davilson Aguiar - PeerSpot reviewer
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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it_user386274 - PeerSpot reviewer
You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size.
Idera treats a backup of a SQL Server as if it is essentially a single backup job of each individual database. You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. It doesn't handle restoration to different drives very easily, and it won't create folder structures if they don't exist already. It cannot be used to implement replication on another instance without first converting files back into SQL Server .bak files. There appears to be LOTs of shortcomings. [All of these short-comings are still very much present even after 6 months of feedback to Idera. No solution is in sight.] Still has a focus on individual databases and not for entire server recoveries. Have tried adjusting max threads values, but it seems to have little affect and Idera is still researching the issue.
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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."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"Bacula is very solid, very stable, and very scalable."
"The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
 

Cons

"Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"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."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a perpetual license."
"This is an open-source solution."
"The product's pricing is a good value. They have a straightforward licensing model."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
19%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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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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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

SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across SQL Servers. Unlike its competition, it provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.

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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.
Woman's Hospital; Sisters of Mercy Hospital System; University Medical Center; MetTel; PPG Industries; 3M; Abbott Laboratories; Comcast; Daimler; GameStop; Hormel Foods; Marriott International; Merck; NCR; United Technologies; City of Lynnwood; Linfosys B.V.; TRI-KES; American Customer Care; Merck & Co., Inc.; Service Corporation International; Fresenius Vascular Care Inc.; Bates White; TechPro Inc.; TW Metals, Inc.; Tulane University; ISO Group; Ameriben Solutions; Instron Corporation; Sentric, Inc.; SPIE; GAS Distribution Company of Thessaloniki and Thessaly SA; American Printing House for the Blind; Paysafe; Freeman Decorating Services, Inc.; Sentric, Inc.; Auburn University; Corporate Communications Group; Sagicor Financial Corporation; Crystal Run Healthcare; Principality Building Society; Experiencias Xcaret; Missoula County; Shellpoint Partners LLC; Solix Inc.; Advicent Solutions, Inc.; Phoenix Newspaper Inc.; Park Place Technologies; Kelly & Associates Insurance Group; Boston Medical Center; Service Corporation International; eResearchTechnology, Inc.
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