Bacula Enterprise Edition presents some extremely powerful advantages over other Backup technologies:

• Since there is a client for each machine, you can backup and restore clients of any type ensuring that all attributes of files are properly saved and restored.
• It is also possible to backup clients without any client software by using NFS or Samba. However, if possible, we recommend running a Client File daemon on each machine to be backed up.
• Bacula handles multi-volume backups.
• A full comprehensive SQL standard database of all files backed up. This permits online viewing of files saved on any particular Volume.
• Automatic pruning of the database (removal of old records) thus simplifying database administration.
• Any SQL database engine can be used making Bacula very flexible. Drivers currently exist for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
• The modular but integrated design makes Bacula very scalable.
• Since Bacula uses client file servers, any database or other application can be properly shutdown by Bacula using the native tools of the system, backed up, then restarted (all within a Bacula Job).
• Bacula has a built-in Job scheduler.
• The Volume format is documented and there are simple C programs to read/write it.
• Bacula uses well defined (IANA registered) TCP/IP ports -- no rpcs, no shared memory.
• Bacula installation and configuration is relatively simple compared to other comparable products.
• According to users, Bacula Enterprise Edition is as fast as the big major commercial applications.
• According to one specific user, Bacula is four times as fast as another commercial application, probably because that application stores its catalog information in a large number of individual files rather than an SQL database as Bacula does.
• Aside from several GUI administrative interfaces, Bacula has a comprehensive shell administrative interface, which allows the administrator to use tools such as ssh to administrate any part of Bacula from anywhere (even from home).

Bacula also has a Rescue CD for Linux systems with the following features:

• You build it on your own system from scratch with one simple command: make -- well, then make burn.
• It uses your kernel
• It captures your current disk parameters and builds scripts that allow you to automatically repartition a disk and format it to put it back to what you had before.
• It has a script that will restart your networking (with the right IP address)
• It has a script to automatically mount your hard disks.
• It has a full Bacula FD statically linked
• You can easily add additional data/programs, ... to the disk.