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

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

"Technical support is excellent in my opinion."

"The support is outstanding and world-class."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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"Several years ago, we encountered some ransomware; we just had to recover the file with Commvault, which was great."

"There's no impact on the endpoint. It runs in the background and it's something that you install and then forget about."

"We are very happy now with the technical support, as it is Indian."

"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."

"There is no reason for me to rate them other than a 10 out of 10."

"Commvault software is a single platform where you can enable whatever you want to use, like endpoint protection, and you can enable those licenses on a single platform screen, which is where I see the value add because it is a single management tool."

"The solution's stability is excellent."

"We can use it on-premises and in the cloud."

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Cons

"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."

"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."

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

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

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

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

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"They need to improve when it comes to large, video file archiving. They're good, but they have not met my expectations as a customer in this area."

"My customers are not satisfied with the tool because there is a little trouble with the throughput of Metallic."

"With so many features, sometimes you cannot find what you are looking for in the interface and you have to dig into books online to find out how to solve an issue."

"When we send a query to Commvault, they take a long time to answer our questions."

"They should move the CommServe outside of Windows machines and the database should be distributed among servers."

"This product is overly complex to operate and run."

"There is room for improvement in its user interface and web console, called Command Center. They are improving it every year so if they continue in that direction, I think it will be a very reliable console."

"Commvault HyperScale X is more expensive for hybrid environments than traditional solutions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a perpetual license."

"This is an open-source solution."

"The product is cheap."

"HyperScale X is expensive."

"The solution is expensive. The subscription is based on a monthly basis. There are additional costs that vary depending on the size of the backup."

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

"In my experience, compared to solutions like Veritas and Veeam, while they do have their technical pluses and minuses, Commvault can save you on average forty percent initially, and then twenty to twenty-five percent annually."

"The pricing is fairly in line with the other products we've compared it with recently. We do spend more on it than we did in our Backup Exec days, but it's fairly competitive with some of the other best-in-class data protection platforms."

"There is a bit of cost involved with signing up the entire solution. It's not a cheap solution."

"Based on the customer's needs, their pricing and model is very confusing sometimes. You need to check with their sales to make sure you are getting the right pricing on whatever you are using. I know that they have simplified a lot regarding the licensing model nowadays, but it is good to always double check and make sure it has everything that you really need."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

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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