We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and HPE StoreOnce based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Bacula is pretty stable."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"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."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"HPE StoreOnce is an easy-to-use tool."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"HPE StoreOnce works well, it is stable."
"We also really benefit from the GUI capabilities."
"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."
"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 are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"The setup phase is not so simple that an end user can plug and play to make it operational."
"The repository should have an extension to connect to the cloud and deposit the backups."
"Hardware maintenance involves some downtime for backup destination storage which can be a problem for some."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"HPE StoreOnce needs to provide a SaaS solution by offering high-density disks."
"The product could be improved with better support for data protection."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 31st in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while HPE StoreOnce is ranked 2nd in Deduplication Software with 103 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while HPE StoreOnce is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE StoreOnce writes "Helps to consolidate D2D backups and has a good deduplication ratio". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas HPE StoreOnce is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Dell PowerVault, ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and Veeam Backup & Replication.
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