Bacula Systems & Bacula Enterprise Reviews

"The most powerful backup tool on the market. Multi-cloud, multi-environment and multi-OS backups in one tool."

"Bacula’s scalability is great. We can add as many Bacula storage daemons as we need, and there is little overhead with the director. We have added at least a 1000 servers."

"Bacula was the only product that worked with HPSS out-of-the-box, provided multi-user access, had encryption compliant with FIPS, did not have a capacity-based licensing, and was available within budget".

"We use Bacula Enterprise to back up a 1.3 petabyte Hitachi SAN. Thanks to Bacula’s ability to tweak it so well, we have gotten the time down to backing up that entire system in around a month."

"Fantastic support! is the verdict of Swisscom IT Services, experiencing with Bacula Systems a very stable environment, best performance, and easily adapted to database backups."

“With Bacula Enterprise , I get a great virtual and physical backup solution in one, plus fast restore ability in an environment where uptime is paramount.”

“The new backup solution not only had to offer a simple licence model, but also be able to cope with billions of files and petabytes of data. Bacula proved to be a powerful solution that can efficiently back up large environments.”

“Because it is easier to control the number of machines you deploy, rather than the amount of data you acquire, we are in a stronger position to control and forecast costs.”

“We needed simplicity of backup & restore, access to advanced deduplication technology, and a backup solution that could fit into our many different technologies and applications.”

"Very positive impact on our ROI. Very well priced for the functionalities that Bacula provides as a backup and restore solution."

"To replicate our data, it used to take more than a week to complete. With Bacula, we were able to reduce that time by 80%."

"I have never, in over 20 years in information technology, encountered a more responsive, competent, and helpful support team."

“Bacula is a great asset for an MSP to have because it is compatible with such a wide range of technologies, but yet is so robust and scalable. It’s dependable – and it has the high levels of security that we are looking for.”

"I would like to give a big shout to Bacula's support team. Their reaction is great and is very helpful with troubleshooting. The explanation is also clear and very detailed."

"In critical situations, it is good to know that data recovery is now much faster. Users are also happier that they can have specific data restored practically immediately."

“I can recommend Bacula Enterprise to companies that need a highly reliable, scalable and fully featured data backup and recovery system.”

"We chose Bacula for the clarity of cost and the simplicity of its business model. Bacula offers similar or better solutions up to 25 times cheaper than that of other competitors."

"Bacula Systems professional services has allowed us to make the transition from proprietary backup software and escape vendor lock-in. It’s backup is is safe, dependable, and delivers high performance."

"Since using Bacula, the amount of time we have to spend taking care of backup and restore has been cut by almost 60%. It can do recoveries very easily. I really like Bacula Enterprise."

“Bacula Enterprise is so stable and reliable that we would not want to use anything else. The support services are great, and we have complete confidence in Bacula – it just works!”

"Bacula Enterprise was the only backup software – of all the products we surveyed – that was capable of client authentication on all operating systems."

"Bacula Systems provides us with a highly reliable and stable environment. As a result, we can now let long-term, computing-intensive workloads run with high confidence."

"We have enjoyed and excellent ROI, primarily due to the freedom to allow significant data volume growth without an increase in license costs."

"When you have 2 TB of data to backup and after 1.8 TB of backup it fails for some reason, then with Bacula you do not have to start over. That is a life saver!"

"Bacula’s license model is really fair. It is based on how many machines you have and the actual amount of data that needs to be backed up is completely unlimited."

"Bacula Systems’ support service is both fast and effective, and its Progressive Virtual Full technology is really impressive. With Bacula’s Global Endpoint Deduplication, we save even more!"

"Inteos Sp. z o.o. and Bacula Systems provided us with state of the art backup and restore technology at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. We appreciate the scalability of Bacula."

"As we grew, backups were taking longer and longer. We decided to take a support contract with Bacula Systems. They helped us optimize our configs; now backups are almost twice as fast."

“Swisscom chose Bacula Systems for the good relationship it has with Bacula Systems’ support and development team. The support team was always ready to help us.”

“Locaweb now have a high-end enterprise network backup solution while also receiving fast, professional and responsive support from Bacula Systems’ team of experts.”

"Bacula Enterprise gives us instant visibility into our Exchange backups, along with the ability to recover single mailboxes really quickly. We could not find any other vendor that can do this so well."

"Bacula System’s excellent support, allows WBSgo® to implement WBSAirback with a large range of customers from different sectors and into different technological environments."

“One of the main reasons Bacula was initially chosen was because of the personal support and service that the Bacula Systems team provided. Your support guys have been wonderful.”

"With Bacula Systems help, we have improved our backup and restore, keeping costs down, too. As a public service, professional open core is perfect for us, and we are very satisfied."

"Deployment was very fast: planning to deployment took just a month where HP Data Protector had taken about 6 months. In addition, it is much easier to control the backup with Bacula."

"With Bacula’s solution, we experienced a significant turnaround in reliability. Thanks to its advanced architecture, Bacula provided us the ability to offer advanced services to our clients."

"Configuring Bacula is great, because it helps you make decisions on how you want to protect your data, with options that make you think "Yes – that would be a nice thing to do within our backup strategy."

"Through the implementation of Bacula, we have seen how simple it is to administer a backup system. Currently, Bacula Enterprise is the best corporate backup system."

"We rely on Bacula Systems to help us, as part of our disaster recovery solution, to protect our customers and our business-critical information."

“Whenever we needed support, Bacula Systems support service was highly responsive, and really high-end.”

"We needed a backup solution that was solid and dependable, with a ongoing support commitment that was responsive, effective, and deeply knowledgeable. Bacula Systems provided exactly that."

"Bacula Enterprise is very configurable. If there is something you want to do, there is most likely a way to do it with Bacula Enterprise."

"Bacula handles our massive data volume effortlessly, and at significantly less cost that other solutions."

"We much prefer Bacula’s method of doing Single File Restore with VMware, because it is far quicker than having to “rehydrate” a VM, then bring it up, then having to copy the file across and so on."

"Bacula`s performance regarding data restore, or a point-in-time backup was simple and fast. In addition, Bacula Enterprise only generated a very low load on the data network structure."

"Bacula Enterprise is the best for large database backup and advanced restore for companies that want to have a great backup system at an affordable price."

“The support from Bacula is excellent - seriously, a level above other companies that I've dealt with.”

"Bacula was one of the few reasonable quotes we received. As we have used open source Bacula for several years and knew it was up to the task, it seemed like Enterprise version was the ideal solution."