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Bacula vs Bareos: catalog facts
Bacula	Bareos
Free The community edition is free and open source. Bacula Enterprise is paid.	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows, Linux, Self-hosted
Scales to large environments with tape libraries and many clients Catalogue database makes single-file restores across years practical	It is a full client-server backup solution under AGPLv3 with no open-core restrictions, covering Linux, Windows, macOS…
Configuration is extensive and unforgiving for newcomers The Enterprise edition holds features the community edition lacks	Setup is an administrator-level job involving a director, storage daemons and a database, which is far more work…
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
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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