Bacula Enterprise vs Catalogic DPX comparison

Bacula Systems and Catalogic are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #24 with an average rating of 10.0, while Catalogic is ranked #73. Bacula Systems holds a 1.1% mindshare in BRS, compared to Catalogic’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Catalogic DPX and Bacula Enterprise are robust solutions in data backup and recovery. Users find Catalogic DPX more favorable in terms of support and overall satisfaction, while Bacula Enterprise stands out for its comprehensive features and higher perceived value despite the cost.

Features: Catalogic DPX offers simplicity and efficient backup capabilities. Bacula Enterprise features an extensive set, including support for a wider range of environments and complex configurations. Bacula Enterprise provides more advanced features compared to Catalogic DPX.

Room for Improvement: Catalogic DPX needs better documentation and a more intuitive scheduling system. Bacula Enterprise has a steep learning curve and requires improved error messaging. Both products face criticism but in different areas, with Catalogic DPX needing usability enhancements and Bacula Enterprise requiring simplification.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catalogic DPX is noted for quick deployment and responsive customer support. Bacula Enterprise, while offering comprehensive deployment options, is complex, which can delay the implementation process. Catalogic DPX is easier to deploy and offers superior customer service, whereas Bacula Enterprise provides more deployment flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: Catalogic DPX setup costs are affordable with a satisfactory ROI. Bacula Enterprise has higher initial costs but justifies them with extensive features and flexibility, resulting in favorable ROI over time. Catalogic DPX is cost-effective, while Bacula Enterprise is a worthwhile investment for advanced capabilities.

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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 (16th)

Catalogic DPX

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

73rd

Average Rating

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Catalogic DPX is 0.5%, up from 0.2% 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%
Catalogic DPX	0.5%
Other	98.4%

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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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it_user292722

Data Center Global SAP Operations Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to backup some high output critical physical servers, knowing that in case of disaster we could still recover to our VM environment. The user interface needs improvement.

The user interface needs improvement, the selection boxes to select a backup job are very small not adequate for managing 400+ backup jobs, we only see 8 job names in the small scroll window. The scheduler features are lacking, we must edit backup specs to reach the option to change the schedule. The new reporting feature has greatly improved the product, prior to this it was very difficult to have a full view of our backup schedules when scheduling a new job. Since the move from Syncsort to Catalogic, the quality control of upgrades has diminished and backups that used to work could not be restored without contacting Catalogic for a fix. We still see a lot of value in the product, but hope that the next few updates will not cause more issues... We wanted a mission critical enterprise solution, and sincerely hope that the future upgrades will bring the product back on track.

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

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

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

"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 pretty stable."

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

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

"Catalogic has great features including the ability to P2V from snapvaults, and recently the addition of agent-less backups for Linux."

Cons

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"Since the move from Syncsort to Catalogic, the quality control of upgrades has diminished and backups that used to work could not be restored without contacting Catalogic for a fix."

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

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Educational Organization

10%

Government

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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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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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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Catalogic DPX protects your data quickly and reliably for your virtual, physical and cloud-based environments. DPX integrates backup and recovery, tape backup, disaster recovery, and bare metal recovery as copy data services that reduce both backup and recovery times by 90% or more through instantly mountable recoveries. DPX simplifies data protection across your enterprise infrastructure and reduces operational costs. The largest hidden cost of data protection is operations: the day-to-day management and troubleshooting of the many different tools used to back up, restore and copy data. Spending too much time on backup and using multiple tools is definitely a problem regardless of the business size which results in wasted resources and personnel time that could be deployed to higher value activities. DPX lets you work smarter by combining an easy-to-use, intuitive management interface with robust backup and disaster recovery capabilities. Built-in integration with NetApp means backup operators don't need to be storage experts. DPX doesn't require months of training and storage administration experience to operate freeing up IT staff to work on other projects that drive new revenue.

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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.

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