We performed a comparison between Barracuda Backup and IBM Spectrum Protect 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 solution’s scalability is good because its space is unlimited. We can start in Office365 with one terabyte bit of information and leverage through an enterprise solution of 1000 users."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"Forever incremental - allows TSM to optimize storage needs."
"Since the technology is reliable, it simplifies the backup process significantly. Now, our focus can primarily be on managing full backups and creating some offline copies."
"The backup is very good. In other backup systems, you need a lot of storage to gain the same backup policy."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"It is more efficient than most traditional backup solutions."
"An improvement is required in reports and backups for sharing on Linux and Unix."
"I am not really impressed with the Level 1 support, but once I get past that and go to Level 2, then we will usually get some type of resolution."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"I would like to see a way to have "always on" implemented."
"The product’s recovery process in terms of agent installation needs improvement"
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
Barracuda Backup is ranked 39th in Backup and Recovery with 3 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Barracuda Backup is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Backup writes "An enterprise solution for backup and ransomware protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Barracuda Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik.
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