We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and Veritas NetBackup 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 has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"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."
"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."
"I like NetBackup's anomaly detection and Linux storage features."
"I have found the Media Server Deduplication tool, deployment policies, and agentless features to be the most valuable features."
"It has been around for so long, and it is very in-depth. It has a solution for everything that you can cover."
"The solution offers the hardware and the software at the same time."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't need any special connectivity - you just need to give your seller name, and then it automatically discovers all your virtual machines, which is a great benefit, especially in a bigger environment."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"It has a very good user interface."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"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."
"The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers."
"The deployment time is longer than it is with other products."
"The biggest additional features needed are more cloud capabilities and security from ransomware."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"There is room for improvement in the implementation of Power servers."
"The cost is expensive."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 29th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and HPE StoreOnce, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec.
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