Bacula Enterprise vs N2WS Backup & Recovery comparison

Bacula Systems and N2WS are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Bacula Systems is ranked #25 with an average rating of 10.0, while N2WS is ranked #43 with an average rating of 9.0. Bacula Systems holds a 1.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to N2WS’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of N2WS users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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N2WS Backup & Recovery

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Bacula Enterprise and N2WS Backup & Recovery are robust backup solutions in the enterprise backup category. N2WS Backup & Recovery appears to have the upper hand for cloud integration and ease of use, while Bacula Enterprise stands out for its flexibility and support.

Features: Bacula Enterprise offers flexibility, scalability, and support for various IT environments. N2WS Backup & Recovery provides seamless AWS integration, automated backups, and features tailored to cloud environments.

Room for Improvement: Bacula Enterprise needs enhanced documentation, minor UI improvements, and simpler operation. N2WS Backup & Recovery requires better non-AWS support, additional enterprise features, and minor UI enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Bacula Enterprise requires expertise for deployment, benefiting from solid customer support. N2WS Backup & Recovery offers straightforward deployment within AWS and responsive support.

Pricing and ROI: Bacula Enterprise is cost-effective with better long-term ROI, but higher initial setup costs. N2WS Backup & Recovery provides good value for AWS-centric operations with a quicker ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

18th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

N2WS Backup & Recovery

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

43rd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

31st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 1.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N2WS Backup & Recovery is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Cezar Ashkar

Cloud Engineer at Digico Solutions

Easy to use and setup

One valuable feature is the easy-to-use GUI There is room for improvement in stability. I have been using this solution for a few months. We currently use the latest version. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. It is a scalable solution. The technical support of N2WS has an…

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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."

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

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

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

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

"Bacula is pretty stable."

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

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

"The recovery time is fantastic and proven. Also, by providing a simple interface, the solution lowers the cost."

"The product is successful with the SMB market."

"The backup and recovery are the most valuable features. So, our developers can work with confidence."

"The initial setup is easy."

"Provides easy, one-click functionality and flexible backup policies and schedules for AWS workloads."

"The backup and restore functionality is very easy to use and manage."

"N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."

Cons

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

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"More documentation would be helpful, especially some step-by-step documents for recovery scenarios."

"The GUI has room for improvement."

"Additional features I would like to see are the ability to restore to different vendors, AWS and Azure, and/or the ability or take the information out of the AWS cloud."

"The GUI could be slightly improved."

"There is room for improvement in stability."

"It's a global feature that the customer thinks they don't have enough tools to manage, to copy, to delay, and to classify the object file in the backup directory. So they need more tools to manage files in object directory."

"The UI is a little dated and hard to use. Some of the buttons are a bit small. You have to go into the menu to get the settings you want."

"The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a perpetual license."

"This is an open-source solution."

"The price is not cheap, nor is it costly."

"AWS adds more features and offer things for free, or cheaply. Therefore, we will be evaluating AWS Data Lifecycle Manager, because it will probably do backups. Thus, make sure the product that you are using is competitive or adds more value than AWS."

"The pricing and licensing on AWS is fine, because you can do it for smaller tiers depending on your number of instances, so it's not that scary."

"The purchasing process through the AWS Marketplace is easy. Just click the button."

"It's very economical and worth the cost."

"It has very good pricing per instance and comes with three options, for both small and large environments, to fit your needs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 do you like most about N2WS Backup & Recovery?

N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for N2WS Backup & Recovery?

I used the free version. I don't have much experience with the paid version. But I'm trying to compare the pricing between different options.

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What needs improvement with N2WS Backup & Recovery?

N2WS Backup & Recovery efficiently takes cloud backups on EC2 instances. The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient.

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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.

Bacula Systems

N2WS Backup & Recovery is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution designed to protect critical data and applications in the cloud. The solution is highly regarded for its ease of use, making it a popular choice for organizations of all sizes. With its help, users can easily manage backups, schedule backups, and restore data and applications with just a few clicks.

N2WS Backup & Recovery also has a range of advanced features, including automated backup policies, cross-region replication, and disaster recovery capabilities.

N2WS

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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