Arcserve UDP vs Bacula Enterprise comparison

Arcserve and Bacula Systems are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Bacula Systems is ranked #25 with an average rating of 10.0. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Bacula Systems’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Bacula Systems users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Bacula Enterprise are both robust data protection solutions. Users are happier with Bacula Enterprise's features but acknowledge that Arcserve UDP provides better pricing and support.

Features: Arcserve UDP users value its comprehensive data recovery options, cloud integration, and straightforward deployment. Bacula Enterprise users find its extensive backup automation, advanced customization capabilities, and high-level scalability beneficial. Users indicate Bacula's features cater better to complex environments.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP users suggest improvements in scalability, performance speed during large data backups, and reporting tools. Bacula Enterprise users recommend enhanced reporting tools, a more intuitive management experience, and a streamlined setup process. Bacula's complexity in management remains a critical gap.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP deployment is considered straightforward with strong customer support. Bacula Enterprise, while offering powerful deployment options, is often seen as more complex to set up. Users find Arcserve UDP's customer service more responsive and helpful.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP has a more affordable setup cost according to user reviews. Bacula Enterprise, although more expensive, delivers higher ROI because of its feature set and automation capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (10th)

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

MukundKambli

Senior Solutions Architect at Team Computers

Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options

I give the solution ten out of ten. This solution offers one dashboard to manage the BC con, disaster recovery plan, DR solution, and backup as well as different licensing options, unlike other OEM products. We are the system integrators for our clients, so we design the solution as per the customer's requirements. We provide several solutions options to our clients such as Druva inSync, Druva Phoenix, and Arcserve UDP with the specifications and the client makes a decision based on their requirements. I would advise potential users to first be clear on whether they are going to use it as a backup solution for compliance purposes, just wanting to take the backups of files and servers, or for instant recovery. The IQ and RPO discussion with our customers usually takes 30 minutes. I recommend this solution.

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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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product's deployment process was straightforward."

"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."

"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."

"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."

"The recovery part of the product is very good."

"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."

"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."

"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."

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"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 pretty stable."

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

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

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

"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."

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

Cons

"One area for improvement in Arcserve UDP is its capability to interact with other cloud servers."

"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."

"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."

"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."

"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."

"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."

More Arcserve UDP cons

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

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

"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."

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

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

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

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We only have the maintenance of three standard UDP licenses. Each license is 50 Euro. There are some additional costs for the storage and software but it has nothing to do with the UDP."

"The solution is expensive."

"The price is based on the number of sockets. We use a four-socket price that includes two servers and the cost is $4,375."

"Its price seems reasonable. Its price is average as compared to the other products I've looked at. We have a three-year license right now. There are no other costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"It is approximately $400 to purchase a virtual service outright."

"The pricing of the product can be considered to be reasonable enough for the Asian region."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four or five out of ten."

"The solution is not very expensive, but it is not cheap."

More Arcserve UDP pricing and cost advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

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Computer Software Company

18%

Non Profit

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

19%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

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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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ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

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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