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Bacula vs Veeam Backup & Replication: catalog facts
Bacula	Veeam Backup & Replication
Free The community edition is free and open source. Bacula Enterprise is paid.	Freemium A free Community Edition is available; the full product is sold as part of the paid Veeam…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows
Scales to large environments with tape libraries and many clients Catalogue database makes single-file restores across years practical	Covers virtual machines, physical machines, NAS shares and cloud workloads Free Community Edition for small setups and home labs
Configuration is extensive and unforgiving for newcomers The Enterprise edition holds features the community edition lacks	Backup server runs on Windows only Aimed at business infrastructure, so setup is more involved than desktop backup tools
Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: Proprietary
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 23, 2026

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