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."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 most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"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 brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"It is a scalable product."
"In the global business world, Veritas has a very good name. I think they have a good solid product, and they are always trying to improve it, and update it. ;They know what the client actually needs, and they are up to the challenge of satisfying those needs."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
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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