Bacula Community
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Bacula Community, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Bacula Community's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Bacula Community Edition | Free | Open source backup, recovery, and verification software · no paid Community plan price stated |
The facts
Each one read from Bacula Community's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- It is a network client/server backup program with Director, Console, File, Storage, and Monitor services.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Backup scope
- filechecked 20 Sep 2026
- Backup types
- The Community Edition lists incremental, differential, and synthetic backups among its features.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Catalog databases
- The current implementation described on the product page supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite for the catalog.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Community support
- Community support is provided by volunteers through a mailing list, and users must subscribe before sending email to the list.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Computer backup
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The Community Edition lists Kubernetes, Docker, and Microsoft Exchange Server plugins, plus cloud storage support.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project says Bacula may suit administrators seeking a network solution, more flexibility, or catalog services, and cautions that setup is more difficult than tar or dump for newcomers to Unix or sophisticated backup packages.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Limitation
- Bacula describes itself as a backup, restore, and verification program, not a complete disaster recovery system by itself.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Bacula manages backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across networks, and can also run on a single computer.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Restore modes
- mixedchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Scalability
- Bacula says its modular design scales from a single computer to systems with hundreds of computers across a large network.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security
- The Community Edition lists automatic communications encryption using TLS and external LDAP console authentication.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Server backup
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Storage
- Bacula can back up to media including tape and disk.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Company support
- The site directs users who need professional support to Bacula Systems.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2000checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Vuiteboeuf, Switzerlandchecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker location
- The Bacula Community site lists its address as Chemin de la Gare 4, 1445 Vuiteboeuf, Switzerland.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The supported operating systems page lists GNU/Linux, MS Windows, and MacOS X/Darwin, among other systems.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- windows,macos,linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
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