Enterprise vs. Community Edition Comparison
Bacula Enterprise is the Leading Open Core network backup and restore solution and is intended for production deployments. Enterprise Edition provides advanced, self-contained and quality assured software that does not require in-house resources for development and test. Bacula Systems professional support offers some of the highest quality technical support in the industry, that puts you immediately in touch with a senior expert, and guarantees first response time based on service level agreement. Bacula Community is suited for evaluation or pre-production use. If chosen for corporate use, the Community Edition requires internal resources to manage release cycles, test, support and add advanced capabilities to the basic functionality available in this version.
See by yourself why Enterprise Open Core products are superior to proprietary solutions for disk and tape backup solutions in both physical and virtual environments. The Trial gives you access to all Bacula Enterprise version 8 features, VSS plugin, BWeb Management Suite and Global Endpoint Deduplication™. If you need to use other plugins we also offer the possibility to test our solution via the Try and Buy offer. The Selective Migration Plan allows a smooth and beneficial upgrade path from Community and other open source backup solutions to Enterprise Edition.
Overview | Community | Enterprise | Notes |
Leading Network Backup & Restore solution | |||
Trial Software. Limited to 30 days and SqLite Database | |||
Free code | |||
Patches | Requires in-house resources to patch | ||
Support | Subscription-based price | ||
Certified binaries | |||
Certification & Test | |||
Support and Services | Community | Enterprise | Notes |
Bacula Certified Training Centers | Admin II course based on Enterprise Edition | ||
Consulting from Bacula Systems and Certified Partners | |||
Community online forums | |||
Professional Technical Support | |||
Remote Assistance (for installation/configuration,design, troubleshooting, optimization) | |||
Access to Professional Documentation | |||
24/7 Technical Support Option | |||
Immediate Access to fully tested Bacula Fixes | Requires in-house resources to patch | ||
Roadmap Visibility and Influence | Subscription-based price | ||
Managed release cycles | |||
Entitlement to new features & upgrades | |||
Advanced Features | Community | Enterprise | Notes |
Snapshot technology | |||
Snapshot management | |||
Single file restore for VMware | |||
Microsoft 365 | |||
Google Workspace | |||
Single mailbox recovery for Exchange | |||
Client initiated backup | |||
Windows SD | |||
Windows EFS support | |||
Storage device switchover | |||
Restart failed job | |||
Communication line statistics | |||
Catalog performance improvement | |||
Periodic statistics for running jobs in Director | |||
Truncate command | |||
SD to SD replication | |||
SD to SD replication with Deduplication | |||
Communication Line Compression | |||
Readonly drive directive | |||
Catalog schema for high performance | |||
Global Endpoint Deduplication | |||
Aligned Volume Format | |||
Continuous Data Protection | |||
Client Behind NAT | |||
Modules (Plugins) to back up specific technologies | Community | Enterprise | Notes |
LDAP and Active Directory | |||
VMware | |||
Red Hat Virtualization | |||
KVM | |||
Hyper-V | |||
Single file restore for Hyper-V | |||
Xen | |||
Single file restore for Xen | |||
Proxmox | |||
Nutanix | |||
Nutanix Filer | |||
Azure VM | |||
S3 Objects | |||
S3 Storage Tiers Control | |||
Docker | |||
Kubernetes | |||
RedHat OpenShift | |||
Plugin for SAP | |||
Windows VSS | includes plugin capability to Exchange™, Active Directory™11, SQL Server™ or Windows @SystemState | ||
Windows Bare Metal Recovery | |||
Linux Bare Metal Recovery | |||
NDMP Plugin | |||
Incremental Accelerator for Netapp plugin | |||
Oracle plugin with SBT | |||
PostgreSQL plugin | |||
MySQL Percona plugin | |||
SAP HANA plugin | |||
SAP (Sybase) ASE plugin | |||
Plugin for MSSQL Server | |||
San Shared Storage plugin | |||
Azure Cloud Plugin | |||
AWS Cloud Plugin | |||
Google Cloud Plugin | |||
Oracle Cloud Plugin | |||
Glacier Cloud Plugin | |||
Tools | Community | Enterprise | Notes |
Bacula Administrative Tool | Limited | ||
BWeb Management Suite | |||
BCloud Service | |||
BWeb plugin restore options | |||
REST API |
How to Know if You Are Ready to Move From Bacula Community to Enterprise?
Further help:
- Don’t know about Bacula Enterprise’s enterprise capabilities? Find the full data backup features list here.
- Want to see our full range of backup and restore tools? Bacula Enterprise works for both database backup and file backup.
- Interested in backup of VMs? Bacula Enterprise works perfectly with VMware, Hyper V, Citrix XenServer and other hypervisors.
- Training is available in different locations, depending on the Certified Bacula Systems Training Center you choose. Find out about our backup training courses.