Bacula Enterprise vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

Bacula Systems and Infrascale are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Bacula Systems is ranked #18 with an average rating of 10.0, while Infrascale is ranked #48. Bacula Systems holds a 2.3% mindshare in CB, compared to Infrascale’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Infrascale users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Bacula Enterprise and Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery compete in the backup and disaster recovery category. Bacula Enterprise has the upper hand with its robust feature set, while Infrascale stands out for its user-friendly deployment and efficient customer service.

Features: Bacula Enterprise offers extensive backup options, rich integration capabilities, and scalability. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery provides quick recovery times, cloud integration, and secure data management.

Room for Improvement: Bacula Enterprise needs easier configuration, enhanced reporting tools, and improved user-friendliness. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery requires frequent updates, better documentation, and user-friendliness enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bacula Enterprise's deployment is complex and time-consuming but has highly rated customer service. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery offers easier and faster deployment with efficient and responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Bacula Enterprise presents a cost-effective solution with a competitive ROI, valued by larger enterprises. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery provides good ROI with a higher initial setup cost justified by superior recovery features and performance.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

18th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Infrascale Backup & Disaste...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

64th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

48th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (9th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (28th), SaaS Backup (40th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 2.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.4%, 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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Harry Vining

Owner at Vtek Systems

The overall ease of use and ease of management using the dashboard is excellent

I can't really think of anything that really needs to be improved from my perspective, because I only use the backup. Maybe someone who is using something else might have a different opinion on that. But for the online backup and recovery tool, I'm not going to say there's anything that needs improvement. They can always improve stuff. But from the top of my head, I can't think of anything. It does what it needs to do. That's it. It doesn't need to do anything more than what it does and nothing less than what it's doing. The Infrascale dashboard when it comes to centralized deployment and configuration is excellent. I have no problems with the solution. They could always make it better. They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement, but there's nothing on the top of my head that's saying, "Hey, this is what needs to be fixed." But, the programmers are probably working on their own things. So, there's always room for improvement.

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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 very solid, very stable, and very scalable."

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

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

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

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

"Bacula is pretty stable."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery, where we have the ability to boot up VMs quickly in a disaster."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is simple to use."

"The overall ease of use and management of the solution using the Infrascale Dashboard is very good. We haven't had any issues. It is easy to learn. Most of our techs who deal with backups are usually up and running with the dashboard within a day or so. They don't have a lot of buried features where you have to dig through things to get to the resolution. It is pretty self-explanatory."

"The initial setup was straightforward and we received support from the manufacturer."

"The overall ease of use and ease of management of the solution using the Infrascale dashboard is excellent. I'd rate it 10 out of 10 because the dashboard is very simple to use. For someone with a technical background, it's a wonderful piece of software to be using in a cloud environment. But if you're not technical, then it might be a problem. It could be confusing for non-technical people. If you don't know what you're doing, you could kind of screw it up. Any human with two brain cells can do it. It's like anything else. So, once you train a human, they're good. Anybody can do it. Anybody with a competent brain can use it and go with a little bit of technical skill. It might be confusing in the beginning, but once you're trained up and you've used it a little bit, like anything else in your life, it'll be easy. They'll come as normal."

"Get Infrascale and talk to their team. They will support you, and they will make you the happiest customer out there."

"The ease of use is valuable. It is user-friendly. Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution."

"Given that we are in the hurricane belt, the spin-up of replicated servers in the cloud is among the most valuable features. If our site goes down we can just connect to the cloud appliance, spin up the servers, and we are good to go."

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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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Having options to replicate between their data centers, once the data is offsite, would be an improvement that they could make."

"They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement."

"There is room for improvement by making the interface a little more intuitive when navigating to recover flat files or an old server."

"When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups."

"One of the significant drawbacks of it is due to the fact that we're using two devices to manage the same vCenter, or virtualization environment, and they don't talk to each other. That means I can't easily see what VMs are already being protected. If I'm on Infrascale device "A" and I have protected these VMs, when I go over to device "B," I can't see that those VMs are already covered."

"In terms of what I would like to see, it would be to make the solution available across multiple clouds."

"The pricing model that they recently changed to is a little bit complicated, and the biggest area for improvement is a better way of figuring out how to price it."

"The only point of improvement I can think of for Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is that the restore process could sometimes be easier to do and faster. A file-only restore or directory-only restore can sometimes take quite some time; however, a server restore goes fast."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

"You get unlimited clients and buy a bucket of space. In addition to the standard fees there were setup fees."

"The pricing is fair, and they are interested in working with MSPs as part of their market."

"The appliances have different prices because of storage, size, and memory. For example, the older machines support more virtual machines, whereas the new one only supports one virtual machine. As we have purchased the later appliances, they have probably been a little bit more expensive because they have to be good enough to keep the business running if the physical server goes down. We learned our lesson from the one that went down when we tried to run products and it wasn't quick enough."

"Our licensing fees are billed every four months."

"The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need."

"The licensing structure was changed some time ago and it's a lot more efficient and the price points are a lot better. They're improving and heading in the right direction."

"The pricing is pretty good and competitive with the market. The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others."

"I appreciate their pricing. We went for this solution for its pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

16%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?

They are incredibly fair and willing to work with their partners to make their pricing work for both partners and the end users. To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, ...

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What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?

When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.

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What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?

We use their online backup, their cloud-based backup, and their cloud-based Office 365 backup.

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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

Infrascale overcomes the complexity of creating backup and disaster recovery solutions without sacrificing performance and reliability. We provide fast, secure recovery that enables customers to feel confident that their data is fully protected from any type of disaster, whether it be operational, environmental, or malicious. Infrascale provides data protection for SaaS applications, endpoints, and servers.

SaaS BACKUP

Protect Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce data from accidental deletion and malicious attacks. Infrascale Cloud Application Backup (ICAB) provides customers with essential data protection that isn’t included in their SaaS provider’s limited retention policies. It also protects the broadest set of SaaS applications and delivers ease of use and ease of deployment.

ENDPOINT BACKUP

Direct-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for endpoints. Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) provides unlimited retention and version history, MSI installer and single pane of glass management, and ransomware anomaly detection. This delivers ease of use, ease of management, and protection from cybersecurity threats.

SERVER BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Boot ready in minutes to run your systems when they go down due to any reason including server crashes, ransomware attacks, or natural disasters. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery (IBDR) provides boot-ready time for failover that averages 2 minutes as well as unlimited disaster recovery and failover testing. In order to eliminate downtime and data loss, IBDR also provides a centrally managed Infrascale Management Dashboard.

Infrascale

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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