Arcserve UDP vs Bacula Enterprise comparison

Arcserve and Bacula Systems are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #32 with an average rating of 7.3, while Bacula Systems is ranked #24 with an average rating of 10.0. Arcserve holds a 1.2% mindshare in BRS, compared to Bacula Systems’s 1.1% 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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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

32nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (22nd)

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

24th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.2%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Bacula Enterprise	1.1%
Arcserve UDP	1.2%
Other	97.7%

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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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Davilson Aguiar

Analista Tecnologia Banco de Dados at Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação

Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression

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 could include greater transparency regarding the volume of data trafficked on the network, as well as the expectation of deduplication. A more practical strategy could come with a backup policy model as a suggestion for both large and small companies. A simple suggestion is to visually implement the backup time as far as your physical media.

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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

"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."

"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."

"I like the tool's speed."

"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want, I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine, I can just right-click, open it in Arcserve view, and copy anything I want to add to the production, and the restore function is very fast, which is a huge benefit."

"Arcserve UDP's integration with multiple operating systems is very good and very efficient, which brings value for me since many of my clients have different operating systems like Windows and Linux; there is no problem."

"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."

"The most valuable feature is the duplication."

"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."

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

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

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

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

"Bacula is pretty stable."

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

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

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

Cons

"The product requires too many VMs as intermediaries."

"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup."

"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

"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 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."

"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."

"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."

More Arcserve UDP cons

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is competitive in the market."

"Its price seems reasonable. Its price is average as compared to the other products I've looked at. We have a three-year license right now. There are no other costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"It is approximately $400 to purchase a virtual service outright."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four or five out of ten."

"We only have the maintenance of three standard UDP licenses. Each license is 50 Euro. There are some additional costs for the storage and software but it has nothing to do with the UDP."

"The solution is not very expensive, but it is not cheap."

"The solution is expensive."

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

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

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Marketing Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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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What is your primary use case for Bacula Enterprise?

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...

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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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