Open-source alternative  ·  Backup

Replace Veeam Backup with Bacula.

Enterprise-grade open-source backup and recovery solution.

You'd keep~R24 000/year

Current licence  ·  Backup

Veeam Backup

~R24 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Bacula

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R24 000/yr

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Today's licence price

The tier.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate.

Standard

R24 000/yr

R2 000/month

Flat rate

With Bacula

Keep R24 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.

Veeam Backup grows around 10% per year on average. Bacula hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR11kR21kR32kR43kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R39kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.11M

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

How this migration runs

Veeam BackupBacula, 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.

Check the project

Migrate Veeam Backup.
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.