We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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."
"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."
"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."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"The flexibility is very good."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"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."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 29th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. 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 Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery.
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