Amazon Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Bareos

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.

Bareos is backup software for computers and servers, with mixed backup scope and restore modes. It includes ransomware protection and supports Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and self-hosted environments. The Community plan is open source, requires no subscription, and provides access to the public repository and complete source code at free. The paid Subscription plan starts at €480 a year and has a minimum of 10 units. Bareos is made by Bareos, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The combination of computer and server backup can suit environments where both kinds of systems need protection. Its listed platform range includes desktop operating systems and web access, while self-hosted use is also supported. Buyers can choose the free Community edition or a paid annual subscription, whose stated minimum is 10 units.