Bacula Enterprise vs Dell Avamar comparison

Bacula Systems and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #24 with an average rating of 10.0, while Dell Technologies is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.9. Bacula Systems holds a 1.1% mindshare in BRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

Bacula Enterprise

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and Bacula Enterprise compete in the data backup and recovery market. Bacula Enterprise seems to hold the upper hand due to its flexibility and customization options according to user feedback.

Features: Dell Avamar is recognized for its data deduplication capabilities, efficient backup processes, and user-friendly interface. Bacula Enterprise stands out for its flexibility, extensive customization options, and robust features suitable for complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Dell Avamar could enhance its scalability, support for diverse environments, and user interface. Bacula Enterprise could improve its configuration process, documentation, and ease of use, particularly for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell Avamar has a straightforward deployment process, but customer service feedback is mixed. Bacula Enterprise's deployment can be more complex due to its flexibility, but users rate its customer service more favorably.

Pricing and ROI: Dell Avamar has a higher upfront cost, with some users questioning its ROI. Bacula Enterprise is also not inexpensive, but users perceive it to deliver better long-term value due to its comprehensive features and resultant ROI.

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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)

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

11th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (6th)

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 Dell Avamar is 1.9%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Dell Avamar	1.9%
Bacula Enterprise	1.1%
Other	97.0%

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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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SamuelThomas

Consultant at Key Information Technology L.L.C.

Have supported critical environments despite room for improvement in legacy backup options

It is very efficient in cyber resilience. Deduplication, automation, and everything is very efficient. It is multi-cloud enabled and has broad protections. The software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery options through its cyber resiliency features. Dell PowerProtect Manager provides insights in managing backup processes. Its encryption mechanisms are very efficient, helping to secure sensitive data. Its integration with Dell EMC Data Domain is very good. It is easy to integrate with Data Domain. Multi-cloud options are enabled, and backup in cloud options exist in Dell Avamar.

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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

"Bacula is pretty stable."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The backup is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very reliable."

"The installation of the solution is easy."

"Dell EMC Avamar is easy to work with and is user-friendly."

"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."

"The data reduction feature and the ease of enabling a server in a DR location are the most valuable."

"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."

"The solution is easy to use and has high performance."

"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"If there is a need to move the data from one backup solution to another, it might be difficult since there is no option for a straightforward migration."

"We'd like to see something that could also work with Unix servers and physical servers to have a unified solution that works with everything."

"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."

"What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."

"I want to see a more user-friendly and administrator-friendly Dell Avamar. The solution also needs a better UI and dashboard."

"There are instances where backups fail on certain applications, which is an area that could be improved."

"The performance takes up a lot of resources, unfortunately."

"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a perpetual license."

"This is an open-source solution."

"The price is the main thing I'd like to see them change. If they can come down in price, that would be a good thing. It's very cost competitive in the entry level range, because Veeam pricing is much cheaper than Avamar."

"It's an expensive tool"

"Dell Avamar is a moderately priced solution."

"It might not be beneficial to smaller businesses due to its high cost."

"The solution is costly."

"There are licensing costs for Dell EMC Avamar and it is paid annually."

"Dell Avamar is expensive."

"I rate the pricing a seven out of ten because it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	48

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's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The cost is very significant, and it could be lower.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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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.

Bacula Systems

Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

Dell Technologies

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.

Dodge County, St Laurence's College, FieldCore (a GE Company), Comanche County Memorial Hospital, Getronics, Lewisville Independent School District, EnvisionRxOptions, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions

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