BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs Bacula Enterprise comparison

Bacula Systems and Vembu Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #24 with an average rating of 10.0, while Vembu Technologies is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7. Bacula Systems holds a 1.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to Vembu Technologies’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Vembu Technologies users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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BDRSuite Backup & Replication

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Bacula Enterprise and BDRSuite Backup & Replication are two well-regarded data protection solutions. While Bacula Enterprise is praised for its robust feature set and customization capabilities, BDRSuite Backup & Replication receives better user feedback for pricing and ease of use.

Features: Bacula Enterprise users value its extensive backup options, scalability, and strong security features. BDRSuite Backup & Replication users appreciate its simple configuration, comprehensive recovery options, and integration capabilities. Bacula Enterprise offers more advanced features, but BDRSuite is preferred for its accessible user-friendly approach.

Room for Improvement: Bacula Enterprise users suggest enhancements in documentation and a more intuitive experience. BDRSuite Backup & Replication users point to desires for quicker support response times and more advanced reporting options. Bacula Enterprise has a steeper learning curve, whereas BDRSuite needs to improve support efficiency and reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bacula Enterprise users highlight its complex deployment process and slower customer service. Conversely, BDRSuite Backup & Replication is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive support. Bacula Enterprise may require more initial effort during deployment, but users find BDRSuite easier to set up and supported better.

Pricing and ROI: Bacula Enterprise users mention higher setup costs and a longer time to see ROI, justified by its robust features. BDRSuite Backup & Replication is praised for its cost-effectiveness and quicker ROI. Bacula Enterprise is seen as a premium option with matching premium costs, while BDRSuite offers better immediate value.

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Categories and Ranking

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 (17th)

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th), MSP Backup (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Redha Benlaksira

Technical Sales Director (Owner) at HSR IT Services SARL

The ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it lets customers choose to restore their data to an hour or a day ago

BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V. You can also create repositories and back up environments to a cloud platform like GCP and AWS S3 buckets. BDRSuite allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on an EC3 instance or Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint, etc. The solution allows us to recover data instantly. We can recover all our data in under 15 minutes. In a virtual environment, we can recover a virtual machine and all its data in under 15 minutes. It's the same for a NAS, SAN, or DAS disk. The ability to boot instantly enables customers to maintain their business operations without interruption. BDRSuite's ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it gives customers the option to restore their data to an hour or a day ago. They can choose a full, incremental, or synthetic backup. Incremental backup makes sense if you are backing up the same data daily and you want to save space and network resources. It only backs up the differences or updates in every block. I've worked with lots of backup solutions, and BDRSuite is the easiest to use. It's simple to install and create backup jobs. It doesn't require many tasks to install the solution. You can easily back up and restore from one console

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Pros

"Bacula is pretty stable."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Their technical support is very good to work with, as they are able to propose alternate solutions to problems that work well for us."

"Vembu provides us with a way to instantly recover data. It offers instant data recovery through a local backup server deployed at the customer's site. We can quickly recover data either by copying it back to the main server or if the backup server is powerful enough, we can also directly start a virtual machine from the backup."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to copy quickly. We have about 12 terabytes, and trying to copy that volume size through the file structure would take a week. BDRSuite has a different approach to copying and is much faster."

"We are now using it 24/7 because it is serving as an online backup, and very soon, the DR will activated on the product."

"I get my backups done."

"It makes it possible for us to back up our Unix machines without installing a host, client, or any client software. It gives us some peace of mind in regards to those servers getting backed up."

"The most valuable feature is the Hyper-V backup - it's just one click. I don't have to worry about it."

"BDRSuite can help organizations save time and money by automating backup and recovery processes and reducing the need for manual intervention."

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Cons

"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."

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

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

"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."

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

"It is not a well-known software. People do not know about Vembu."

"The reporting can use some improvement. I still use the old StoreGrid Cloud while I'm migrating the rest of my clients over. I am able to export all of my clients' usage for the month, which I then import into my billing program. It helps me speed up the billing process. Also, I can generate a report that gives me statuses of everyone's backup, which I don't get from Vembu Backup Online either. I would like to have something similar where I can export everyone's usage at any time for all their backups, so I can use that to import them to my billing program."

"The initial setup process can be more simplistic and quicker."

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

"They need to improve their marketing because not many people are aware of it. People ask me what is Vembu, and I have to explain to them it is a good tool for backup and other things."

"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."

"The product is co-branded, not white-labeled."

"We have not been able to move our backups from one drive to another one. We can only create a storage pool. However, if we want to change a drive, it is not possible to delete one drive as long there is data on it. For this, we have to call the support. While they can solve this, it is not out-of-the-box."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

"The best thing about the product is the license management. It is a true managed service provider solution. It has a good price. The licensing is quite flexible, which is one of the most important things for us."

"The pricing and licensing structure are spot on. I don't think there's anything out there in the market that does either the licensing structure or the pricing structure better."

"The pricing is reasonable. I am okay with it."

"The return of investment was very fast, within half a year."

"Its price is fair, and they still allow perpetual licensing, which is extremely important for us. They also have offline licensing. I am not aware of any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. In terms of the affordability of the solution for businesses with a tight budget, you aren't going to beat it."

"It is affordable. It has value with respect to the features included in the software."

"It's just the license per host with one CPU, but if I did choose offsite cloud replication, they do charge for the data. They charge per gigabyte, or something like that. They have plans."

"It is very cost efficient, effective. I’d say it's one-third the cost of Veritas when compared to the server backups. I even tried image backups on Acronis, but Acronis is very expensive. So these are some of the key reasons why I opted for it."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

21%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

88%

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

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What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also...

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Overview

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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BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

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Sample Customers

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.

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

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