We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Dell NetWorker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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."
"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 brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."
"The solution has minimized the recovery time objective, and the recovery point objective, the RTO and RPO. Most customers are looking for to minimize downtime. The solution has helped ensure this."
"Very user-friendly with a good interface."
"The software’s best feature is data backup for any system."
"NetWorker has very good scalability."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Dell EMC NetWorker is scalable."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"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."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"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 be more user-friendly."
"I haven't had a good experience with technical support. It takes them a very long time to resolve issues."
"The team does not have enough knowledge to support you."
"The implementation process could be improved."
"I would like to see encryption included in the next release to encrypt the data that we are backing up."
"It's not easy to integrate. We have to read a lot of documentation in order to configure the solution."
"NetWorker's major problem is its legacy software."
"The user interface of this solution could be improved. It is not user friendly and is difficult to understand for new users. New users struggle to understand the logic."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 29th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Dell NetWorker 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 Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud.
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