Open-source alternative  ·  Backup

Replace Commvault Complete with Bacula Enterprise / Bareos + Restic.

Bacula or Bareos for enterprise network backup with tape/disk/cloud targets and central console. Restic for fast encrypted incremental backups. Together they cover Commvault's full feature set. Self-hosted.

You'd keep~R55 500 to ~R222 000/year

Current licence  ·  Backup

Commvault Complete

~R55 500 – ~R222 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Bacula Enterprise / Bareos + Restic

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R222 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Commvault Complete's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Per front-end TB (10 TB)

R55 500/yr

R4 625/month

Per 10 TB

With Bacula Enterprise / Bareos + Restic

Keep R55 500/yr

Per front-end TB (50 TB)

R222 000/yr

R18 500/month

Per 50 TB

With Bacula Enterprise / Bareos + Restic

Keep R222 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Commvault Complete grows around 10% per year on average. Bacula Enterprise / Bareos + Restic hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR98kR197kR295kR393kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R358kR22k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.58M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Commvault CompleteBacula Enterprise / Bareos + Restic, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other backup migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Commvault Complete.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.