Bacula Enterprise vs KeyCloud Backup and Recovery comparison

Bacula Systems and KeyInfo are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Bacula Systems is ranked #16 with an average rating of 10.0, while KeyInfo is ranked #73. Bacula Systems holds a 1.7% mindshare in CB, compared to KeyInfo’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of KeyInfo users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and KeyCloud Backup and Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Cloud Backup

16th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (24th)

KeyCloud Backup and Recovery

Ranking in Cloud Backup

73rd

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.7%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of KeyCloud Backup and Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Bacula Enterprise	1.7%
KeyCloud Backup and Recovery	0.4%
Other	97.9%

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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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James Mercer

Director of Information Technology at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Simply provides single-vendor, consistent cloud-based backup

I would say that the room for improvement comes under the heading of performance. We backup a lot of information in a 24-hour period. It works fine. But there's always room for improvement on that. If they would make my 24-hour backup cycle window, from start to finish, a 15-hour or a 12-hour backup window, I'd be that much happier. Just to be clear, there's no time consumption on the part of my staff. This runs fully automatically. But the concern is that when you do backups, you want your backup window to be as narrow as possible. Actually, our backup window is 20 hours, and it gets done in 20 hours. Because, the longer it lingers, the more of a window there is for a disaster to knock you down.

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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

"Bacula is pretty stable."

"The most valuable feature is the support for Linux servers."

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

"The support is outstanding and world-class."

"Bacula Enterprise, so far, has never let us down with their service and support."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is its ease of use; it works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."

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"The most important features is that it provides consistent cloud-based backup."

"We don't think about our backups anymore, they're that reliable."

Cons

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

More Bacula Enterprise cons

"We backup a lot of information in a 24-hour period. It works fine. But there's always room for improvement on that."

"We backup a lot of information in a 24-hour period. It works fine, but there's always room for improvement on that."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

10%

University

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

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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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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.

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KeyCloud Backup and Recovery is a fully managed backup and recovery solution for mission critical data. KeyCloud includes the software, offsite storage and support – all in an enterprise-grade cloud environment that provides massive scalability, and guaranteed restorability. With KeyCloud, you can rest assured your most important data will always be protected and available, without the hassle of managing it yourself.

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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.

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