We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"If you are a large organization, this is a product for you."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"The simple and fast restore routine."
"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 29th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Unitrends 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 Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), UrBackup and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).
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