Bacula Enterprise vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Bacula Systems and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #27 with an average rating of 10.0, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0. Bacula Systems holds a 1.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Bacula Enterprise compete in the disaster recovery and data protection market. Bacula Enterprise seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive feature set outweighing the benefits of HPE Zerto's pricing and support.

Features: HPE Zerto Software provides seamless disaster recovery, continuous data protection, and real-time replication, focusing on simplified management suitable for business continuity. Bacula Enterprise, known for its customizable framework, offers extensive support for diverse IT environments and robust feature sets, focusing on detailed control and cross-platform versatility.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto Software could improve by expanding platform support and offering more customization options. Additionally, refining licensing flexibility could enhance adoption. Bacula Enterprise might enhance its user interface for easier navigation and streamline setup processes. Lowering initial setup costs could also make it more accessible.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bacula Enterprise offers a flexible deployment model with detailed documentation and expert support, ensuring comprehensive customization. HPE Zerto Software is easier to install with robust service support, facilitating quick deployment and reducing technical hurdles. Bacula is adaptable to various ecosystems, while Zerto focuses on efficiency in deployment.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software is more competitively priced with clearer costs, appealing to businesses seeking quick savings. Bacula Enterprise might have higher setup costs but offers significant ROI through its extensive features and scalability. Zerto provides immediate value, while Bacula promises long-term investment benefits.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

27th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

13th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

343

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 2.1%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	2.1%
Bacula Enterprise	1.0%
Other	96.9%

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Featured Reviews

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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David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

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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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Bacula is pretty stable."

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

"The features of HPE Zerto Software that I prefer the most are the backup and the vault. It helps with business continuity."

"The live test failover is the most valuable feature because it allows me to validate that my data is protected in the event of a failure."

"The most valuable feature is real-time replication, where we have the ability to recover things in near real-time."

"Zerto offered us massive time saving and consistency. We have a consistent outcome every time we complete conversions."

"The user interface is very user-friendly."

"I found the very easy VPG setup, the easy recovery, and failover testing to be the most valuable features."

"Their support is very good."

"The solution has saved me time in data recovery situations due to a corrupt server, as I used HPE Zerto Software to do the restoration."

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Cons

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"One improvement that could make it easier would be to have an easier way to track journal usage and a little bit more training around journal sizing. I've done all the training and the journal is still a gray area. There is confusion surrounding how it's billed and how we should bill clients. It would be easier if it had billing suggestions or billing best practices for our clients to make sure that we're not leaving money on the table."

"They could improve their online documentation."

"The setup of the system, although simple to get working, is a little more tricky to get right. This aspect could have benefitted from a bit more explanation."

"I would like to have an overall orchestration capability that would enable you to do multiple VPGs in some sort of order, with delays in between."

"The only negative I would give is that with the latest version of the appliance, setting up authentication was a bit of a challenge, but that is just a matter of using Keycloak and how things have changed."

"Their support team didn’t have all the answers, and some of the cases took far too long to address, especially on critical systems that needed to be operational for our DR events."

"I would rate them an eight out of ten because not every response is as we expect. They do resolve the issue, but sometimes customers have unusual questions, and they are not able to say how exactly to fix that or how to do something,."

"Now, everything is moving to the cloud and many modern app solutions are based on virtualization and cloud, however, for situations where Unix platforms are used, we'd like them to be able to support that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a perpetual license."

"This is an open-source solution."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."

"The licensing model is good. The price is a little bit expensive, but for what customers get on it, it tends to pay for itself. However, if more and more companies start to improve, then Zerto may need to look at their pricing and make it a little better."

"We're getting our money's worth with Zerto."

"Pricing is one area where there could be some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model. Or it could be a model based on the amount of storage space you're protecting."

"Zerto's pricing is competitive, given the benefits and ease of setting it up. It may seem more expensive upfront, but you're going to save that over the long term by spending less engineering time configuring, reconfiguring, etc."

"We feel it is pretty cost-efficient. For the amount of protection that we get for Zerto, we feel that it is at an excellent price point, especially compared to some of the other vendors that were just backup solutions. For all that it does, we feel that the price is good."

"Licensing is based on the number of VMs to replicate. The first thing should be to get the number of VMs to replicate based on your business needs."

"Its licensing is yearly. You can do multi-year contracts, which is what we did. You pay per VM, and you replicate a license per VM. So, we bought about 20 licenses. We paid somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000. There is an initial upfront cost. Basically, you buy the license, and then you have a maintenance cost on top of that. So, the upfront cost is somewhere between $5,000 to $10,000. The maintenance is $5,000 to $10,000 over a three-year period."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

University

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

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	90
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	196

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?

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

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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

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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.

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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