We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and NAKIVO Backup & Replication 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 brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"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."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."
"Every new version has got some tweaks and improvements in stability and speed."
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time."
"We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs."
"The backup and replication are great."
"It is easy to manage all of the individual backup jobs, check the status every day, and it can even send an email to keep us informed."
"The easy management and a good overview are the most important aspects."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"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 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."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"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."
"The backup speed needs improvement."
"The upgrade process is a bit dated and could use some changes."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"Using an independent bootable media to restore full physical machines would enable physical machines that may be serving as Nakivo Director or Transport machines to be reliably restored to service without undue delay, ensuring that an enterprise's local environment remains intact."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"We'd like to see a legacy environment backup, like AIX, etc."
"Compression and data deduplication are okay, but they could be improved."
"I had to manually install SNMP, which wasn't hard, but a step I had to take, to plug this into the monitoring system."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 29th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto.
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