Bacula Enterprise Room for Improvement

Davilson  Aguiar - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista Tecnologia Banco de Dados at Centro de Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação

It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company. A managerial user who wants more information beyond the operational technician should be able to access it. 

It could include greater transparency regarding the volume of data trafficked on the network, as well as the expectation of deduplication.

A more practical strategy could come with a backup policy model as a suggestion for both large and small companies. A simple suggestion is to visually implement the backup time as far as your physical media.

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Roni Alvarenga Ferraresso - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology and Telecommunications at Câmara Municipal de Campinas

A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed. 

I would also like a mobile application to manage the Bacula Enterprise environment where I could perform backups and restores directly from my cell phone or tablet. Relying solely on a desktop is a bit frustrating as its GUI isn't exactly responsive.

They need a clearer and faster restore screen to get the information about the data we want to restore; it's a little uncomfortable to find the files to restore on the current screens.

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reviewer1797963 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator - Storage Engineer at NanoImaging Services, Inc.

We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI.  

It can be a little tough if you are not very familiar with programming, editing a file by hand can create mistakes if the person doesn't know what they are doing.  They should let the GUI have more functionality in order to have someone not as experienced be able to administer the backups.  

Also, we would like to see Bacula be able to write to multiple tape drives in parallel. For example, sending a single backup over multiple tapes.

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RS
Senior Database Administrato at Molecular Health GmbH

The initial setup could be a bit easier. It would be nice to have Oracle and SAP HANA plugins as well, means that we could directly backup and restore our databases using "expdp/impdp" (Oracle) or "export into/import from" (SAP) as it is possible on PostgreSQL via "pg_dump/pg_restore".

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Claudio Dosio - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees

The interface needs to be easier for adding new devices to be managed. It is easy for a skilled person to use, but for others who are not as skilled from a technical perspective, it is not as easy to manage. It is not the type of solution where you can just keep clicking on the Next button.

The file deduplication capability needs to be improved.

Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement.

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JC
Director tecnico at Blemia

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.

The initial setup and site configuration should be easier.

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YB
CEO at Backup Solutions LLC

We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist.

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