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Veeam Backup & Replication vs Bacula: catalog facts
Veeam Backup & Replication	Bacula
Freemium A free Community Edition is available; the full product is sold as part of the paid Veeam…	Free The community edition is free and open source. Bacula Enterprise is paid.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Covers virtual machines, physical machines, NAS shares and cloud workloads Free Community Edition for small setups and home labs	Scales to large environments with tape libraries and many clients Catalogue database makes single-file restores across years practical
Backup server runs on Windows only Aimed at business infrastructure, so setup is more involved than desktop backup tools	Configuration is extensive and unforgiving for newcomers The Enterprise edition holds features the community edition lacks
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License: Proprietary	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 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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