Bacula Enterprise vs Commvault Cloud comparison

Bacula Systems and Commvault are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #23 with an average rating of 10.0, while Commvault is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Bacula Systems holds a 1.1% mindshare in BRS, compared to Commvault’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Commvault users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Commvault Cloud and Bacula Enterprise are data management and backup solutions. Users prefer Commvault Cloud for its accessibility and technical support, while Bacula Enterprise's feature set stands out.

Features: Commvault Cloud offers superior automation, advanced integration capabilities, and intuitive management options. Bacula Enterprise is recognized for its scalability, diverse platform support, and comprehensive open-source ecosystem.

Room for Improvement: Commvault Cloud needs to simplify licensing complexity and improve documentation clarity. Bacula Enterprise should enhance ease of use, streamline user-friendly processes, and improve deployment times.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Commvault Cloud has a smoother deployment process and responsive customer service. Bacula Enterprise may require more technical skill and time for deployment but offers flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: Commvault Cloud users report higher satisfaction with setup costs and better ROI due to its efficiency and support. Bacula Enterprise is cost-effective but could improve ROI with user-friendly enhancements and quicker deployment.

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

23rd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

16th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Commvault Cloud

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

4th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

112

Ranking in other categories

eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (5th), SaaS Backup (2nd), Container Backup Software (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.1%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 3.6%, down from 7.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Commvault Cloud	3.6%
Bacula Enterprise	1.1%
Other	95.3%

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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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Ankit Gagneja

Cloud Solution Architect at Tata Consultancy

Hybrid backup strategy has improved recovery orchestration and now supports flexible DR planning

I think improvements could be made in Commvault Cloud. Lately what I have seen is that there are AI capabilities that different data protection organizations are coming up with, which basically revolves around tiering of not frequently accessible data to glacier kind of storage, plus bringing in a high level of compression and deduplication capabilities. All those features I believe are there in other customers and they are bringing in new use cases from the AI perspective which I have not recently seen in Commvault. I have seen that Dell does have such features. We recently pitched a solution to the customers where we talked about data tiering and the other AI use cases, identifying the data by itself and autonomously taking decisions on how to tier the data between the different storage classes that we have. Those kind of capabilities that we have proposed to the customer as far as the partner solutions are concerned. I would like to see AI capabilities in Commvault Cloud. The rest of the features pretty much align with the other enterprise solutions that we have in the market. It is just the AI capability that is being asked by the customers as well as that I see missing with Commvault.

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

"We have been using it for several years and we are very satisfied with how easy it is to configure and set up and run backups."

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

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

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

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

"The solution has had a tremendous impact on our public company, as we are now cost-effective and even better on performance with our restorations."

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"In the VM, we have Live Recovery, Live Mount, and Live Sync."

"If you really want to understand your data, audit your data, really manipulate your data, and save money through your data, then Commvault is the place to go."

"Overall, we have been impressed by the features of the solution and by the responsiveness of Commvault's support, we like the product and we feel we made a good decision in acquiring Commvault and working with them, and we are pretty happy."

"Overall the solution is very good and highly stable."

"The features I find most helpful in Commvault are its ability to perform incremental backups and significantly reduce backup times for our diverse multi-architecture, multi-environment environment."

"Over the years, it has actually become cheaper, due to the fact that I've become smarter about how to use it better."

"They have some really good features, they have really good engineering, and they have very good support."

"It runs all the tests and emails us the reports. We take daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots, and I integrate the storage snapshot scripts with the Commvault workflow. The Commvault workflow runs all the scripts and sends us the reports. It also features cloud-side reports and workflows. Commvault has many tools for backing up, restoring, and archiving things, but we use another service for our archives."

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Cons

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

"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."

"The interface needs to be easier for adding new devices to be managed."

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

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

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

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

"Relying solely on a desktop is a bit frustrating as its GUI isn't exactly responsive."

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"I would like Commvault to have a feature for cybersecurity threats, e.g. securing the target backup repository."

"It is quite expensive when compared to other applications in the market."

"I think there is room for improvement with the reports. They are a little poor."

"I would like to see some of the code execute a little bit better when I add new licenses and assign licenses to users. I'd like to see that information update a little quicker."

"Commvault HyperScale X could improve by allowing backups of the storage area network (SAN)."

"The reporting is complicated and should be simplified in an upcoming release."

"There could be improvements to the backup failures."

"Commvault could make the product more cost-effective on the public cloud side. We are using this solution to back up whatever is still on-prem. We are not using it to back up what is on the public cloud because we have a native backup solution for that, which is provided by the vendor. As our footprint gets bigger, we will continue to evaluate this, but the last time that we did a cost analysis, the cost was not comparable to the solution that public clouds are offering."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

"Commvault licensing is a perpetual license so only the support is being renewed yearly."

"Hands down, Metallic provides us with more predictable costs for our backup requirements. You are getting what you pay for. If they are charging you X amount of dollars at that point, that is what you are going to pay. So far, I have not seen any hidden costs or any kind of gotchas. It is pretty cut-and-dry. They will let you know, "Hey, you are going to use our storage and it will cost you this much. You are going to use your storage, then we are going to charge you this much to backup.""

"...the battle came down to pricing, as well as some small features, and Commvault was the best in all the criteria."

"Commvault is quite high in terms of pricing and licensing."

"The solution is worth the money."

"The license is paid on an annual basis and the price is reasonable."

"It would not be affordable for small to medium size organizations."

"Commvault Backup & Recovery is priced fairly, and its performance-to-cost ratio is also better than fair."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

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	57
Midsize Enterprise	24
Large Enterprise	82

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatWise?

Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.

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What needs improvement with ThreatWise?

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What is your primary use case for ThreatWise?

I work with a variety of backup solutions including Commvault, Avamar, Rubrik, and similar tools. I am part of Tata Consultancy Services where we pitch all these solutions to customers from the bac...

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Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise

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

Commvault Cloud is the ultimate cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of the hybrid
enterprise. Beyond its core functionality of data backup and recovery across diverse workloads, including applications, databases, virtual machines, and files, Commvault Cloud stands out as a robust defense against ransomware. Going beyond backup, the platform integrates advanced data security features such as encryption, access control, and threat detection, safeguarding against unauthorized access and cyber threats.

With tools for data management, classification, and migration, businesses can optimize storage costs, enhance accessibility, and comply with regulations seamlessly. Boasting cloud integration with major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, Commvault Cloud leverages the scalability and flexibility of the cloud for comprehensive data protection and management. The platform's automation capabilities streamline tasks, and its reporting and analytics features provide valuable insights into data usage, potential risks, and optimization strategies. Commvault Cloud is not just a security tool; it is a key component of cyber resilience, enabling organizations to not only protect against cyberattacks but also recover swiftly and minimize the impact of incidents. Elevate your cyber resilience strategy with Commvault Cloud.

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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.

Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company

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