Bacula Enterprise Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.3 out of 10

63 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Bacula Enterprise are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient Backup Process: Many users have found the backup process of Bacula to be efficient, allowing them to specify file size for backups and easily locate and restore their data. This pro has been mentioned by several reviewers, highlighting its effectiveness in streamlining the backup process.

Complex and Flexible Scheduling System: The complex and efficient scheduling system of Bacula has received praise from a number of users. They appreciate the customization options and flexibility it offers, allowing them to tailor their backup schedules according to their specific needs.

Data Deduplication Feature: Users have commended the data deduplication feature of Bacula, which helps optimize storage by eliminating duplicate data. This valuable feature has been mentioned by multiple reviewers as it contributes to more efficient use of storage resources.

Reviews

11 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

Great Backup system

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bacula Enterprise is a very complete and easy-to-use solution, with plugins for different environments, advanced deduplication and encryption and security features It is also very versatile and can work with different storage strategies, including tape Furthermore, it is also very customizable to suit backup policies. It is very easy to monitor, and has very good performance

Pros

Backup & Restore
Backup Protection, Anti Virus, Anti Ransomware, Immutability
Support

Cons

tape management
updates alerts

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise can be used by any company, it is very versatile and affordable, it can be run on a Linux server sized for the size of the company and required retention, it is very simple to use, it does not require a specialized professional, the Bacula Enterprise support is also always available to help when needed

Leandro Souza

Support Coordinator in Information Technology at C&M Software (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Bacula Enterprise for Lawyers

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 7, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a partner in a law firm (Alem & Rocha - Advocacia e Consultoria), sensitive data management is a topic of great relevance. Data Security ensures that all sensitive legal documents, client information, and case files are securely backed up, protecting against data loss due to hardware failure, cyber attacks, or human error, helps with regulatory compliance, ensures that the firm can quickly recover critical data and resume operations with minimal downtime and lawyers can focus on their work without worrying about manually managing backups, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

Pros

Intuitive, fast and full configuration of the backup system
Remote access for the activities execution
Highly trained team;

Cons

Interface customization for new users
Interface restore

Likelihood to Recommend

My firm needs all the suport to guarantee data security, compliance, efficiency, client trust and cost savings, and Bacula backup system give me this option.

Eduardo Alem Rocha

Eduardo Alem Rocha in Legal at Alem & Rocha - Advocacia e Consultoria (Law Practice, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

So many features but great value for money.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Main requirement is for extreme security and fast recovery of data and my applications.
Sometimes I need to do single file recovery but also be prepared for bare metal recovery.
Nowadays we all need to keep the cost at minimum and Bacula helped me with that.
Now I'm experimenting with Bacula replicating my K8s deployment. Seems to work well and will help me grow my business.
My business challenge is that I do not have much time to spend on data backup. It just must me simple and easy thing to manage.
Bacula support team is always fast and super friendly with any inquiries I had

Pros

Fast recovery of data
Very stable and reliable
Broad security features
Simple pricing

Cons

Some features are a bit too deep for me
User interface takes some time to learn
Still waiting for Salesforce integration

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited:
- I use it for on premise and cloud backup and recovery and it is excellent for this job.
- I also experiment with different hypervisors and till now Bacula seems to work with all of them
- Security is really important for me as I had many bad experiences in the past and Bacula solution makes me totally confident.

Less appropriate
- You need to be experienced Linux user, I had to learn few more things in system to make the best use of it.
- It's definitely designed for scalability and bigger companies than mine

Adrian Penpeski

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Product Management at Projekt AP (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

BACULA best cost benefit on the market

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 1, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Here at Prodap, we have been struggling for a long time to access a Backup software that was good and cheap, we found Bacula as the best value for money. Right from the start, it solved our compression problem because the others we used weren't very efficient about it. It made us take up less storage.

Pros

Data compression
Deduplication
Support most storage devices
Nice Visual Management
Give to manage via command line
Ease of learning

Cons

Making the transport of large volumes of data more transparent
Use XFS disks as they are faster for database

Likelihood to Recommend

The use of Bacula is much more appropriate in our experience here in Prodap in full backup very fast to its compression. We like it for Baculaflexible and be used in various storage formats and not be tied to a single database, not to mention that we can use compression algorithms such as gzip open code.

Davilson Aguiar

ANALISTA TECNOLOGIA BANCO DE DADOS in Engineering at Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação - PRODAP (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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Backup tool that makes everyday life easier for your team

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a daily user of the Bacula Enterprise tool, it was necessary to improve knowledge about data backup and recovery technology. My team is responsible for maintaining the backup in various files on virtual servers and times to ensure that all Backup services work correctly on a daily basis. We are also responsible for handling data recovery tickets from servers and databases. We use Postgres and Oracle.

Pros

Ease of managing backup services on servers and databases
Integration with virtualization tools and Databases
Adaptable interface for team needs
data recovery from storage devices

Cons

Interface customization is not so intuitive

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise is an excellent tool for a company that needs to perform automated data backup, whether the volume is large or small. If it is necessary to reduce data deduplication and also transfer to tapes, so that this data is stored longer. Bacula Enterprise is a complete and simple tool, if your company doesn't have the need to automate backups and manage these routines, there wouldn't be much collaboration in the use of this tool.

Telssen Nogueira

Security Specialist in Information Technology at Hydrographic Navy Center (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

A Complete and Efficient Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Throughout my 20 years in the data recovery industry, working in complex and large scenarios, I’ve never had to intervene in an environment that uses Bacula Enterprise. I’m the proof that Bacula Enterprise is a very efficient backup and disaster recovery solution. The system also has a wide variety of plugins, and the team provides great customer service. That's why I have Bacula Enterprise as a solution for protecting my company's data and I recommend it whenever I can.

Pros

Global deduplication
User-friendly administration
Business applications backup

Cons

I believe some basic plugins such as Delta and BWeb, should be free

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise is great for medium and large data centers due to its scalability and robustness. However, I know of small businesses that use it successfully. The amount of Storage Daemons installed is unlimited, so it is possible to have different NAS-type storage equipment and tape libraries on different machines, with load balancing and/or failover.

William Javier

CTO in Information Technology at Hosco Recuperação de Dados (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Very Flexibile and Reliable Backup and Recovery solution with great Support

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 12, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bacula plays an important role to ensure our data recovery. Bacula also has so many flexibilities that we can configure according to our needs. We use Bacula Enterprise, Bacula vSphere Plugin, and Bacula Web. I would like to give a big shout to Bacula Support. Their reaction is great and is very helpful with troubleshooting the problems that I had. The explanation of troubleshooting is also clear and in a very detailed way.

Pros

Troubleshooting skills
Flexibility in configuring Job & Schedules
Bacula Support are top

Cons

Bacula Web could be improved in the future.

Likelihood to Recommend

Flexibilities to configure the backup jobs, schedules are the most helpful feature in Bacula Enterprise. Bacula can almost cover everything.

Alexander Siahaan

ESCRYPT IT Teamlead Bochum in Information Technology at ESCRYPT Gmbh (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Bacula Enterprise - Reliable backup & recovery for your enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deployed Bacula Enterprise to replace our incumbent, commercial, backup vendor after support costs increased significantly and support quality was less than expected. We conducted a PoC first, and were very impressed at the ease of use, scalability, and the effectiveness and responsiveness of the Bacula support team.
Bacula Enterprise is being used in all of our data centers throughout the United States to backup physical servers, VMware, and NAS arrays (NDMP) to deduplicating disk targets and tape.

Pros

Standard backups of hosts, whether physical or virtual work very well.
Restore of individual files or VMs is much faster than our prior solution.
Easy to script pre or post-backup tasks, in fact, almost anything can be scripted to work in the manner we want. Infinitely flexible!

Cons

Lack of "Archive" type job. (These backup files for long-term retention, then delete the original files, in order to save space or reduce clutter on production systems.
Config file management can become cluttered or confusing if standards are not adhered to (name by site, platform, etc), however, sheer script-ability and plain text config files instead of a proprietary database to hold configs is also one of the greatest strengths.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise is well suited to a variety of backup tasks... There are available plugins to accomplish pretty much anything we need to, and the cost for those plugins is very reasonable.
Recommended for (but certainly not limited to):

VM backups (VMware, Hyper-V, containers)
NDMP backups
Physical server backups via agent
CDP (Continuous Data Protection)
SAN backup transport
Encrypted backups

Paul D Simpson

Team Lead - SysEng Operations & Storage in Information Technology at Zeta Global (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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The most powerful backup tool on the market.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 8, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bacula Enterprise is used as a main backup tool for the firm, is used to backup virtual machines, file servers, database servers and so on. Due to the flexibility and power of the Bacula Enterprise, we were able to achieve impressive numbers when compared to another tool in the market.

Pros

Extremely flexible and powerful, giving the operator confidence in what is happening.
Multi-cloud, multi-environment and multi-OS backups in one tool.

Cons

The BWeb interface could be improved.
It requires operators to have deep Linux knowledge to operate Bacula Enterprise.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula Enterprise is well suited for small or big companies. It is very well documented, powerful and flexible. You can run all the components on a single server as well as in a distributed installation to achieve scale. There is no `too much` data for Bacula Enterprise.

Rogerio Goncalves

in Information Technology at Velocity Technology Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Bacula does the job well

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Bacula for our backup jobs across our platforms for a big project. It is being solely used by our technical team to manage, administer and check backups.

Pros

It's very quick and efficient.
It has a very easy to use CLI (command line interface).
It's very powerful in a few areas of recovery and customization.

Cons

VM Ware based image backups on-cloud technology.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bacula has got excellent customer support and they have always answered and resolved issues promptly.

Amit Sontakey

Sr. Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Siemens (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Bacula Enterprise - Reliable backup & recovery for your enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Standard backups of hosts, whether physical or virtual work very well.
Restore of individual files or VMs is much faster than our prior solution.
Easy to script pre or post-backup tasks, in fact, almost anything can be scripted to work in the manner we want. Infinitely flexible!

Cons

Lack of "Archive" type job. (These backup files for long-term retention, then delete the original files, in order to save space or reduce clutter on production systems.
Config file management can become cluttered or confusing if standards are not adhered to (name by site, platform, etc), however, sheer script-ability and plain text config files instead of a proprietary database to hold configs is also one of the greatest strengths.

Likelihood to Recommend

VM backups (VMware, Hyper-V, containers)
NDMP backups
Physical server backups via agent
CDP (Continuous Data Protection)
SAN backup transport
Encrypted backups

Paul D Simpson

Team Lead - SysEng Operations & Storage in Information Technology at Zeta Global (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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