Amazon Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Bacula Enterprise

Amazon Elastic Disaster Recovery replicates on-premises and cloud-based applications to AWS for recovery with reduced downtime and data loss. It can launch recovery instances from the latest server state or a selected earlier point in time, support non-disruptive recovery drills and fail recovered applications back to their source environment. Sources include physical servers, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, other cloud providers and EC2 instances recovering to another Availability Zone or Region. Supported Windows and Linux workloads include Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server databases and SAP. The service can replicate AWS network settings such as subnets, security groups, route tables, internet gateways and network ACLs. Post-launch actions can run Systems Manager commands or automations. The console shows servers, events and metrics. Pricing is $0.03 a month, billed hourly per actively replicating source server. There is no free plan.

Bacula Enterprise is commercially supported software for managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across networks. It lists support for virtual environments, containers, SaaS and IaaS, databases, Windows environments, and storage systems. Virtualization integrations include VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, Xen, XCP-ng, Proxmox, KVM, Red Hat Virtualization, Azure VM, and OpenStack; cloud interfaces include S3, Azure, Glacier, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Backup policies can be full, incremental, or differential, with a built-in scheduler, incomplete-job restart, and bandwidth limits. The subscription includes the software suite, BWeb web-based administration, technical support, and future patches, updates, and version changes. Listed security features include FIPS 140-3 compliance, multi-factor authentication, AES encryption options, TLS communications encryption, and immutable disk volumes. SIEM and SNMP monitoring integrations are also listed. Subscription tiers depend on secured endpoint count and support response time, not data volume or storage consumed. Pricing is available on request; the maker offers a 30-day trial with support for €199, with trial support responses stated at one to two business days.