We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Veeam Backup & Replication 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."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"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."
"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 has an intuitive interface, and it provides us with successful backups without needing to tweak or do any adjusting. We just set it up and like their ad says, "It Just Works.""
"The documentation is very good. It's also easy to install Veeam Backup and Replication."
"We get a lot of features with Veeam and we are happy to use this solution. After shutdown, the servers here automatically turn off and Veeam is keeping up all this. It's tension free work."
"Replication and restore object in Exchange boxes with possibility to select part of Microsoft directory."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"The whole replication aspect of the solution is excellent because it compresses the data so well."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are it is easy to use and manage."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"We're using both Backup and Replication, Veeam Cloud Connect, and Veeam Office 365. What I am missing is a good graphical user interface between these three products."
"Limited support for environments other than VMware or Microsoft."
"The cloud part of it can be improved. There should be an option for Veeam in your own cloud, as compared to the Veeam cloud offering that's currently there. The rest of it is easy."
"There is always some room for improvement, especially with some of the different technologies such as DB2. Commvault has a DB2 agent, but Veeam still doesn't have it. We have to use the universal one for it."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
"The pricing model could be improved. It can be made cheaper."
"The data duplication should be improved."
"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 30th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our Bacula Enterprise vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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