Bacula Enterprise

Overview

Bacula Enterprise is developed by Bacula Systems, headquartered in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, and is derived from the open-source Bacula project^[21]. It is aimed at large and technically demanding environments, and the vendor names customers including NASA (through contractor SSAI), Sky, Swisscom, Warner Bros. Discovery, Booking.com and Texas A&M University^[21].

Coverage is unusually wide at the infrastructure level: hypervisors including VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack, Proxmox, Xen, XCP-ng and Nutanix AHV; containers on Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift; databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL; tape, NDMP and NAS; and high-performance computing file systems such as GPFS, Lustre and HPSS^[21]. The product line includes the BWeb management interface, BGuardian security monitoring and a Sovereign Recovery offering^[21]. Bacula Systems states that it does not use capacity-based pricing, so costs do not rise with data volume, but it does not publish prices^[21]. The product’s configuration model reflects its open-source roots and generally requires more administrator expertise than wizard-driven SMB tools.

Bacula Enterprise features

• Hypervisors from VMware to XCP-ng and OpenStack
• Kubernetes, OpenShift and Docker backup
• SAP HANA and other database plugins
• Tape, NDMP and NAS support
• HPC file systems including Lustre and GPFS
• BGuardian security monitoring

Bacula Enterprise pricing

Quote-based. Bacula Systems states that it does not charge by data volume.

Bacula Enterprise strengths and limitations

Appears in

• Best Backup Software in 2026 #13

Bacula Enterprise alternatives and competitors

Alternatives to Bacula Enterprise: companies ranked in the same lists.

• Veeam Data Platform
• Commvault Cloud
• Rubrik
• Cohesity (including NetBackup)
• Acronis Cyber Protect
• Druva
• N-able Cove Data Protection
• Datto SIRIS
• Unitrends
• NBNAKIVO Backup & Replication
• Arcserve UDP
• Hornetsecurity VM Backup