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90% willing to recommend
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624 views|490 comparisons
100% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Bareos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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 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.""The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community.""Bacula is pretty stable.""It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users.""The main benefit of the product is its backup feature."

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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.""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.""Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement.""It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company.""We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI.""The initial setup could be a bit easier."

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"The tool is not user-friendly.""The virtual machine backup is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."

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  • "This is an open-source solution."
  • "We have a perpetual license."
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  • "We used the free community version of the solution."
  • "I use the open-source version of Bareos, which means I used the free version of the solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:We use the solution as a complete backup solution for virtual machines and databases in Prodap - Data Processing in Amapá. Its very lean and simple architecture, with its deduplications not covering… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of installation it provides its users.
    Top Answer:I use the open-source version of Bareos, which means I used the free version of the solution. I haven't used the licensed version of Bareos.
    Top Answer:The virtual machine backup is an area with shortcomings that need improvement. Bareos doesn't function as a full-fledged backup solution for virtual machines. In the future, I want to see Bareos… more »
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    18th
    out of 113 in Cloud Backup
    Views
    1,326
    Comparisons
    988
    Reviews
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    Average Words per Review
    420
    Rating
    9.0
    31st
    out of 113 in Cloud Backup
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    624
    Comparisons
    490
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    2
    Average Words per Review
    321
    Rating
    7.5
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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.

    Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a cross-network Open Source backup solution which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

    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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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    University9%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Non Profit16%
    Comms Service Provider15%
    University9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business56%
    Large Enterprise44%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise52%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise34%
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    Bacula Enterprise is ranked 18th in Cloud Backup with 9 reviews while Bareos is ranked 31st in Cloud Backup with 2 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Bareos is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bareos writes "The product is stable and enables users to create backups, but it is not user-friendly". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Bareos is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

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