Bacula Community version and Enterprise Edition Product Comparison

The community version is suited for evaluation or pre-production use. Corporations choosing this option need internal resources to manage their own release cycles, test, support and add advanced capabilities to the basic functionality available in this version.

The Enterprise Edition is suited for production deployments. Bacula Systems Enterprise Edition provides advanced, self-contained and quality assured software that does not require in-house resources for development and test. Bacula Systems professional support offers best of breed technical support that guarantees resolution times and service level agreements.

Overview	Community Version	Enterprise Version
Leading Open Source Network Back up & Restore solution
Full trial version (all features and plug- ins). Limited to 30 days and SqLite Database. Technical support provided as an option
Low cost	Free Code Requires in-house resources to patch and test	No up-front license cost Subscription-based price
License	Open Source  AGPL3 license	Open Source  AGPL3 license Supply of binaries
Certified and Tested
Services and Support
Training (in Switzerland)
Consulting from Bacula Systems and Certified Partners
Community online forums
Professional technical support
Remote Assistance (installation/configuration, design, troubleshooting, optimization)
Access to professional documentation
24/7 technical support option
Immediate access to fully tested bacula fixes	Eventually receives fixes (delays of 3 to 6 months) Need to re-build code and test manually
Roadmap visibility and influence
Managed release cycles	Unpredictable and constant community code change
Entitlement to new features  & upgrades
Four Year Version Support
Advanced Features
Bacula Administrative Tool capabilities	Limited	Full. Stable and reliable.
Windows Bare Metal Recovery plug-in
Bweb Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise Management Center
Windows VSS plug-in (14 components including Exchange, Sharepoint, MySQL and MSSQL)
Linux Bare Metal Recovery plug-in
NDMP plug-in
Oracle and SAP plug-in (in development)
Delta plug-in (available in July 2011)
VMWare plug-in (In development)