We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Dell Avamar 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."It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"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."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"The entire system operates seamlessly, with minimal hands-on involvement, allowing us to focus on monitoring rather than constant adjustments or deployments, as seen in larger, more dynamic environments."
"It's a good solution."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"Client deduplication."
"The solution scales well."
"Duplication and the speed of backup are great."
"Graphically, it's very user interactive. It's got a very nice interface."
"We used Dell Avamar for backup and recovery of a virtual environment."
"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."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"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."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"Dell EMC Avamar is a very complex product. It took a lot of time for the IT admins to get trained on how to use it. It is not very user-friendly, and we won't be using Avamar anymore. It needs a lot of improvement in terms of how the backups have been configured, and the reporting is too complex."
"The product could offer more integration capabilities."
"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"If you don't have DPA, the reporting features are not as user-friendly, so reporting is something that they can improve on."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"The user interface still needs to have some level of improvement. It could be more user-friendly and intuitive."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 31st in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Dell Avamar is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Dell Avamar is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Bacula Enterprise vs. Dell Avamar report.
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