Arcserve UDP vs Bacula Enterprise comparison

Arcserve and Bacula Systems are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #23 with an average rating of 6.9, while Bacula Systems is ranked #27 with an average rating of 10.0. Arcserve holds a 1.1% mindshare in BRS, compared to Bacula Systems’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Bacula Systems users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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85% willing to recommend

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Bacula Enterprise are both robust data protection solutions. Users are happier with Bacula Enterprise's features but acknowledge that Arcserve UDP provides better pricing and support.

Features: Arcserve UDP users value its comprehensive data recovery options, cloud integration, and straightforward deployment. Bacula Enterprise users find its extensive backup automation, advanced customization capabilities, and high-level scalability beneficial. Users indicate Bacula's features cater better to complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP users suggest improvements in scalability, performance speed during large data backups, and reporting tools. Bacula Enterprise users recommend enhanced reporting tools, a more intuitive management experience, and a streamlined setup process. Bacula's complexity in management remains a critical gap.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP deployment is considered straightforward with strong customer support. Bacula Enterprise, while offering powerful deployment options, is often seen as more complex to set up. Users find Arcserve UDP's customer service more responsive and helpful.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP has a more affordable setup cost according to user reviews. Bacula Enterprise, although more expensive, delivers higher ROI because of its feature set and automation capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

23rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

27th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.1%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Arcserve UDP	1.1%
Bacula Enterprise	1.0%
Other	97.9%

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Featured Reviews

Sergio Itikawa

Software Solutions Architect at SPEData

Has supported hybrid IT environments effectively and offers strong data protection

With Arcserve UDP, the most valuable feature is to improve persistent data, which I consider important. I use other products too, not only Arcserve UDP, as we use TrueNAS as well. Arcserve UDP improves the precision of data. I have utilized Arcserve UDP's data deduplication feature, and the data deduplication feature helps my storage efficiency significantly. I have used Arcserve UDP's continuous data protection. It is beneficial for operational continuity because we use it constantly and have no objections to Arcserve UDP technology; I think it is very good. Arcserve UDP's integration with multiple operating systems is very good and very efficient. This brings value for me since many of my clients have different operating systems like Windows and Linux; there is no problem. Regarding the deduplication and compression with Arcserve UDP, I think Arcserve UDP is still a solid solution that we primarily use.

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GiovanniRamirez

Senior IT Consultant at Xerif

Solid backup tool with good scalability

The last scenario in which I used Bacula was for a customer who needed some open-source tool which could support encryption at that time. We managed to convince the customer to use Bacula to deploy it in their environment It was a very good project. The Bacula concept, topology, and networking…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is the initiative UI and the logs are clear and detailed that are generated when there has been an issue or failure on the user's system. We only have to log onto the client's system to retrieve the information. It is possible to precisely identify the problem's location. The system categorizes and logs every step in a structured manner, selectively displaying only the essential logs. However, to view a comprehensive log, one must access the line machine log and examine the actual client for detailed logging."

"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."

"I would recommend it if there is a general case."

"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."

"The most valuable feature is the duplication."

"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."

"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."

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"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."

"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."

"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."

"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."

"Bacula is pretty stable."

"Bacula is very solid, very stable, and very scalable."

"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."

"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."

Cons

"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week."

"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."

"The initial setup was complex."

"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."

"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."

"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."

More Arcserve UDP cons

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."

"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."

"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."

"Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability."

"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."

"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."

"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

"There are annual subscription fees and there are licensing costs for three computers. It is an expensive solution."

"There is an annual license required for this solution and it is priced well."

"The pricing is moderate."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

"As an MSP partner, I believe that the prices are fair."

"The licensing cost is for one year. There are not any hidden costs involved in the pricing model of the solution."

"In comparison to other vendors, it is a low-cost solution."

"It is a bit pricey, considering the reliability problems. If the tool worked flawlessly, the price would be fair, even cheap."

More Arcserve UDP pricing and cost advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

University

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	24
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

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 ...

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What do you like most about StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

Regarding the setup cost for Arcserve UDP, it is significantly important, but the price is similar to all our options where clients need to have backup on-premises and replication in the cloud.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bacula Enterprise?

Bacula is more expensive than various other solutions. It’s almost completely commercial now. Products like Veeam software are much more expensive.

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What needs improvement with Bacula Enterprise?

Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability.

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Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

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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.

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Sample Customers

ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

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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