We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Bacula Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."I like the product's restoration cases."
"I like that it's a stable solution and their support is good. I think Microsoft's commercial force is superior."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services."
"It is a stable solution...The product is worth the money you pay for it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease in which it backs up our data."
"It's easy to deploy."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"You can select the tiering for your backup and manage your cost."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"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 brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"Azure Backup's licensing model is very challenging because it doesn't give a clear picture."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"The tool's backup should be faster. Azure Backup's support should be faster."
"The integration with the record database and integration with other applications will be good, especially with the database piece."
"There is a limitation of 99 files restores per day which means that we can't complete a huge file restore. We would like Azure to increase the number of the possible file restorations."
"We would like to see some kind of notification given to the user that a file was not synchronized well or what may have happened."
"On-prem can be complex to set up but the cloud is simple."
"My company faces a lot of difficulties in restoring any encrypted VM backup."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"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."
"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."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Bacula Enterprise is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 8.0, while Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Easy to install, performs well, and the technical support is helpful ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Acronis Cyber Protect.
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