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Bacula vs Amanda: catalog facts
Bacula	Amanda
Free The community edition is free and open source. Bacula Enterprise is paid.	Free The community edition is free and open source. Commercial editions are paid.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Scales to large environments with tape libraries and many clients Catalogue database makes single-file restores across years practical	Archives are written with standard tar or dump, so they are readable without Amanda Balances daily full and incremental runs across clients automatically
Configuration is extensive and unforgiving for newcomers The Enterprise edition holds features the community edition lacks	Configuration is dense and the documentation assumes Unix experience The interface is entirely command line
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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