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."Bacula is pretty stable."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"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."
"The solution is simple to understand."
"The feature that offers the greatest benefits in ensuring data integrity is its backup capability."
"Storage-wise, EMC is user-friendly."
"NetWorker's most valuable feature is recovery, including the policy-based backups that can be configured."
"It is the best umbrella, serving the best applications."
"The backup capabilities and the automatization of the backup - along with the potential to make the back up on a virtual machine - are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"Simple, stable and straightforward."
"The solution is very stable, especially if you are using a RAC environment."
"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 could be a bit easier."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"NetWorker's major problem is its legacy software."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
"he API side of the solution has certain shortcomings."
"Could have a better recovery system."
"It would be beneficial to have a single user interface for all of the features."
"We are looking forward to better stability in future versions."
"Since the product is not on the front banner of Dell, the support may not be the best."
"Regarding improvements for NetWorker, I believe implementing cross-platform restore functionality is essential. This feature would allow for compatibility with various backup software solutions, similar to Veeam."
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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