We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and IBM Spectrum Protect 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 solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"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."
"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."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"The product is very stable."
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"The main feature of this product is a flexible architecture and functionality that allows you to solve problems of any complexity and scale. Most importantly, it is not just a product that simply makes a backup, but it restores and saves a large number of services in critical situations. By the way, it works fine with different types of clouds, supports S3."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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 user interface needs to be improved."
"The product should be improved to save more space."
"We cannot take VMware backups for our banking data center environment."
"In a future release, it would be a benefit to have the ability to add an application as a storage target, as a storage pool. Additionally, they should add more functionality to the administration for the Operation Center."
"Most customers still struggle with the reporting piece, especially generating reports. I think it needs some improvements in this area."
"Replication services would be nice. If these could be enhanced to be always on so multiple storage backup services could be added as a cluster pool. This would provide a better availability service."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"I would like a little more ease with the virtual platforms, because it is a huge thing that is coming up."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 30th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Bacula Enterprise vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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