Compare Acronis Backup vs. Bacula Enterprise
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"The most valuable feature is its consistency." "It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface." "This is a full software so deployment time is very quick." "The web-based interface makes it easy to use." "One of the features I have found most valuable is the restore point - it gives us what we need at the time we need it. The important thing is that the backup for Acronis doesn't depend as much on the device." "The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware." "It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly." "The most valuable feature is the fact that it backs up my systems transparently in the background, and I'm not even conscious of it." | "It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure." "Bacula is pretty stable." |
Cons | |
"This is not a feature-rich solution." "The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult." "No technical support and minimal documentation." "When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear." "For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain." "In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule." "I would like to have more hardware space. It would make it better. I would like to have two more terabytes." "When I first started using Acronis, I found it a little bit confusing when it came to the configuration." | "Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement." "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." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis." "The pricing is comparable to the newest solution available on the market, Altaro." "The cost of updates is less than $100 USD yearly." "It is very cost-effective for the SMB segment, especially for start-ups and smaller environments. It is cost-effective for on-premises and on-cloud deployments in such environments." "This is an affordable product and fits within our customers' budgets." "Licensing fees are billed annually and there are no extra charges." | "This is an open-source solution." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four… more » Top Answer: It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface. Top Answer: I'll be completely honest, it's a very annoying product. The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make… more » | Top Answer: It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure. Top Answer: This is an open-source solution. Top Answer: The interface needs to be easier for adding new devices to be managed. It is easy for a skilled person to use, but for others who are not as skilled from a technical perspective, it is not as easy to… more » |
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Views 14,691 Comparisons 11,680 Reviews 12 Average Words per Review 472 Rating 7.8 | Views 2,879 Comparisons 1,925 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 403 Rating 8.5 |
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Also Known As | |
| Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced | |
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| Acronis | Bacula Systems |
Overview | |
Acronis Backup 12.5 is the world’s easiest and fastest backup solution for all your data, whether it is located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, or on mobile devices. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary, Acronis Backup 12.5 is the most reliable backup solution on the market today. Available in Standard and Advanced editions, Acronis Backup 12.5 protects data on 21 platforms. With active protection from ransomware, 15-second Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and backups that are two times faster than the closest competitor, it is easiest to-use, fastest, most secure and complete backup solution available today. Acronis Backup simplifies the management of data protection and reduces IT manual efforts with innovative features that automate data protection. These features include a zero-installation, unified touch-friendly web-based console to manage backup and recovery of all workloads and data, agentless and agent-based backups; and flexible granular, bare-metal, and dissimilar hardware recovery options. | Bacula Enterprise Edition is a set of subscription-based enterprise data backup solutions which empower data centers to truly escape data volume price traps. 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. |
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Learn more about Acronis Backup | Learn more about Bacula Enterprise |
Sample Customers | |
| Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda | NASA, SwissCom, Bank Austria, SdV Plurimedia, Leibniz University Hannover, Polfa Warszawa S.A., premaccess, NetLog, Swisscom Corporate Business, LocaWeb, wbsGo |
Top Industries | |
Government10% Non Profit10% Manufacturing Company10% Media Company7% Comms Service Provider30% Computer Software Company24% Media Company5% Construction Company4% | Comms Service Provider37% Computer Software Company20% Government10% Educational Organization6% |
Company Size | |
Small Business46% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise30% | No Data Available |
Find out what your peers are saying about Acronis Backup vs. Bacula Enterprise and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
456,249 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Acronis Backup is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery Software with 14 reviews while Bacula Enterprise is ranked 37th in Backup and Recovery Software with 2 reviews. Acronis Backup is rated 7.8, while Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Acronis Backup writes "A stable and scalable backup solution with superior image restoring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Easy to use, stable, and offers many tools and features ". Acronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Commvault and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Asigra, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Acronis Backup vs. Bacula Enterprise report.
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