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Bacula
The best open source backup software for Linux
As of 29 August 2026, Bacula is free to use. Open source network backup, recovery and verification software, distinct from the commercial Bacula Enterprise edition. Softwr lists it under Backup.
Overview
What Bacula does
Open source network backup, recovery and verification software, distinct from the commercial Bacula Enterprise edition.
What people use it for
- Linux, Windows, and macOS network backup at scale
- VMware, KVM, Hyper-V virtual machine backup
- MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL database backup
- Microsoft Exchange Server backup
- Tape backup and enterprise data retention
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Bacula.
- The community edition has no vendor support contract; bacula.org directs support and paid deployments toward the separate commercial Bacula Enterprise product instead.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Bacula
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- BaculavsAcronis Cyber Protect
Acronis Cyber Protect: Integrated backup and cybersecurity protection
- BaculavsSpanning Backup
Spanning Backup: SaaS backup for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
- BaculavsCloudAlly
CloudAlly: Enterprise SaaS backup made simple
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Bacula cost?
Bacula Community Edition is free and open source. Bacula Enterprise is a commercial offering with a free trial available, but specific pricing is not listed on the main website.
SourceIs Bacula free?
Bacula Community Edition is fully free and open source. Enterprise Edition is commercial but offers a free trial to evaluate features before purchasing.
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Where to go from Bacula
- Bacula alternativesEvery product people weigh against it
- Bacula pricingPlans, floors and what the tiers exclude
- Bacula badgesWhich rules it meets, and the figure behind each
- All Backup softwareThe full category
- Best Backup softwareThe shortlist, and how it was cut
Best Backup software for
Compare Bacula with
- UrBackup
- Proxmox Backup Server
- Backupify
- Acronis Cyber Protect
- Spanning Backup
- CloudAlly
- Velero
- Kopia
- Amanda Enterprise
- Clonezilla
- Restic
- Portworx Backup
- Redstor
- rustic
- StorageCraft ShadowProtect
- SysCloud
- Trilio
- Unitrends Backup
Other Backup software
Open source client server backup doing both file and whole disk image backups of Windows machines
Open source12 researched notesDeduplicating backup server for virtual machines, containers and Linux hosts, with verification built in
Open source12 researched notesOpen source backup and migration for Kubernetes cluster resources
Open source11 researched notesOpen source deduplicating backup with client side encryption and a repository on almost any storage
Open source12 researched notesOpen-source backup trusted by enterprises
Free, then $5.99/monthly11 researched notesKubernetes application backup with a free tier up to one terabyte
Free, then $0.2/node hour11 researched notesCloud backup for managed service providers with instant streamed recovery
Pricing on request11 researched notesRust reimplementation of restic that reads and writes the same repository format
Open source12 researched notesBackup and recovery for OpenStack, Kubernetes and Red Hat Virtualization
Free plan11 researched notes
Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Bacula, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.
More on Bacula
Bacula alternatives
What people switch to, and what they give up
Bacula pricing
Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
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Best Backup software alternatives
Microsoft 365, Dynamics and Salesforce backup from a long-standing Microsoft partner
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Serverless AWS backup with published per-gigabyte rates and explicit restore charges
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