We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"It is a good solution. It covers most of the applications."
"I like the virtual server backup."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"This is a complete solution, everything is under one console."
"We can easily expand the ability of the solution."
"It is easy to use, and you can run it with all kinds of client software environments. It works well with the most popular software, file systems, and operating systems. It is very useful to us."
"We believe that everything Veritas NetBackup offers, including backups, snapshots, deduplication, and replication, is valuable."
"The most valuable features are the VMware VADP backups and the support for data domains."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"Bacula needs a graphical user interface because, for administrators, the command-line interface is okay, but for the average user it is not very easy."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"The ability to use different disk appliance brands as Pure Disk (not OST), such as EMC Data Domain ."
"The database integration could be better."
"Extra features come with additional costs."
"The pricing could be improved, and the interface could be more intuitive."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
"When the customer is using SaaS applications like Office 365, the integration falls short and needs to be improved."
"This solution would benefit from a more friendly, web-based interface."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 31st in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Bacula Enterprise vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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