We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Bacula Enterprise 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 hardware is always updated and it's saved us a lot of money."
"You have the flexibility to encrypt your backups and choose the storage capacity you're comfortable paying for."
"The solution helped us use R2 RBO to back up frequently."
"With Azure Backup, you can readily make your environment if your setup somehow fails on the cloud or on-premises."
"I like the product's restoration cases."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services."
"With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"The tool has a lot of features."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"My company faces a lot of difficulties in restoring any encrypted VM backup."
"It can be further improved by continuously meeting its compliance requirements."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"The solution is still in its infancy; it's not a mature product yet."
"The Azure Backup support for on-premises service is limited."
"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to back up to different cloud providers."
"The compression ratio of the backup data should be improved."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"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."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Bacula Enterprise is ranked 31st in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Azure Backup vs. Bacula Enterprise report.
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