Hello,
I am not a sales person, and I really try to keep the
Bacula Systems commercial stuff on the Bacula community
list to a minimum, but since you asked ...
There are lots of pros of going with Bacula Enterprise:
1. We supply binaries that are tested
2. We supply new binaries with fixes to bugs
3. You get what I feel is very good support
4. You get software that has a considerable number of
Enterprise performance improvements.
5. You get software that is more secure
6. You can get *lots* of additional features such as those
that you are asking for.
The cons:
1. Well, I don't really want to talk about that :-)
2. OK, it does cost, which is something community users
can afford to do ...
Why are there no price lists on the Bacula Systems web site?
Because we are so ridiculously inexpensive compared to other
major commercial vendors.
If you want prices and to know more about Enterprise features, you
can get more information but simply filling out a query form that
is
somewhere on the Bacula Systems web site:
www.baculasystems.com
If that doesn't work out, contact me directly and I ensure you get
the
info you would like to have.
Just to balance this a bit. For community users, please know that
over
time everything that Bacula Systems adds to the Enterprise version
that
does not involve third-party prioprietary stuff will over time, as
it has
since the beginning of Bacula Systems in 2008, migrate into the
Bacula
community version.
Best regards,
Kern
On 10/04/2013 08:51 PM, Steven Hammond wrote:
We have been using the Open Source edition
for about 6 months. It is working fine in our production
area. I’m still reading and learning a lot about the system
(it is very flexible). However, we do have a couple of SQL
SERVERS and an EXCHANGE server and was considering the
Enterprise Edition because of the plugins. Currently, I just
have the SQL SERVERS backup the databases using it’s built-in
maintenance schedule and the Bacula backups the backed up
databases from their backup folder. As for Exchange, it is a
relatively small store (4 db’s, ~100GB). We’ve been just
using VSS to back it up, but I’ve also written a couple of
powerscripts that get run before/after to unmounts/report
stats/mount the store. So far it seems fine. I also have
Bacula-Web installed.
So, I was wondering if anyone is using the
Enterprise Edition and give some good reasons to upgrade.
Also, I can find NO pricing information online (a bit
strange). I have no problem paying for good software (open
source or proprietary). I just wonder about the pros and
cons. Oh, here is our production environment:
4 Xenserver 6.2 hosts (running ~17-20 VM’s
split between Windows 2008 R2 and Ubuntu LTS).
2 Physical Servers (Windows 2008 R2)
2000/2005/2008 M$ SQL SERVER, M$ EXCHANGE
2010
Oh, we are looking at using Bacula to get
stuff offsite. Our Bacula server is just a plain Dell
PowerEdge server with dual Xeon CPU’s, 12GB RAM, and 8x3TB
drives in a RAID-5 configuration with raid card and battery
backup on the card. It also has 2 tape drives (LTO-2,
LTO-5). I’m still researching how to use Bacula
(copy/migration) to maybe copy some of the files to our
secondary plant via our wireless link (18Ghz link at 300Mbps
bandwidth). Anyone who has successfully setup an offsite
scenario, I’d love to hear from you.
Steven Hammond
I.T. Manager
Technical Chemical Company
For support, please email us at
support AT technicalchemical DOT com.
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