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Bacula Enterprise vs Zmanda comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise
Ranking in Cloud Backup
13th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (26th)
Zmanda
Ranking in Cloud Backup
71st
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Bacula Enterprise is 2.3%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zmanda is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Bacula Enterprise2.3%
Zmanda0.2%
Other97.5%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

GiovanniRamirez - PeerSpot reviewer
Solid backup tool with good scalability
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 it in their environment It was a very good project. The Bacula concept, topology, and networking…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Educational Organization
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
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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.
What needs improvement with Bacula Enterprise?
Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability.
What is your primary use case for Bacula Enterprise?
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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.
Raytheon, Vyatta, Cisco, EDS, Yelp, Reed Business, Xerox, NASA, Sprint, Amazon.com
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