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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bacula Enterprise

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.N/A

    Commvault Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ACommvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A
    Pricing
    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Bacula Systems
    Chose Bacula Enterprise
    - More VM's compatibility
    - Better prices
    - More customizable
    Incentivized
    Chose Bacula Enterprise
    Bacula Enterprise was selected by us in comparison to other software, due to its high performance, data reliability and mainly cost-benefit, a software of great scalability and performance for a low cost, it represents for the company a greater profit and a security of data …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bacula Enterprise
    Some of the Bacula Enterprise competitors are well fitted for a certain task like Virtual Machines backups or Database backups. Bacula Enterprise, with its flexibility and plugins, was able to achieve the same level of performance of all other tools together, reducing the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Bacula Enterprise
    Cost: Bacula wins hands down on cost.
    Deduplication: CommVault is, as they put it, hardware-agnostic when it comes to deduplication, and is really fast. Bacula does deduplication too, but not nearly as well. CommVault's deduplication remains deduplicated across all media. Not so …
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    Commvault
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    60 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    Features
    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Bacula Enterprise and Commvault Cloud
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    9.4
    49 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Universal recovery9.11 Ratings8.067 Ratings
    Instant recovery10.034 Ratings7.064 Ratings
    Recovery verification10.042 Ratings7.068 Ratings
    Business application protection3.02 Ratings7.572 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.047 Ratings5.371 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.048 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.029 Ratings7.559 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.741 Ratings7.575 Ratings
    Snapshots10.036 Ratings7.571 Ratings
    Flexible deployment10.044 Ratings6.166 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.646 Ratings7.567 Ratings
    Platform support10.048 Ratings7.067 Ratings
    Retention options9.749 Ratings8.065 Ratings
    Encryption10.038 Ratings7.564 Ratings
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    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Small Businesses
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Storage Protect
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Backup
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (49 ratings)
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bacula EnterpriseCommvault Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bacula Systems
    Well suited: - I use it for on premise and cloud backup and recovery and it is excellent for this job. - I also experiment with different hypervisors and till now Bacula seems to work with all of them - Security is really important for me as I had many bad experiences in the past and Bacula solution makes me totally confident. Less appropriate - You need to be experienced Linux user, I had to learn few more things in system to make the best use of it. - It's definitely designed for scalability and bigger companies than mine
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    Commvault
    Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
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    Pros
    Bacula Systems
    • Bacula has great plugins that work very accurately
    • Bacula is very simple to use, with a user-friendly web interface that facilitates operation.
    • Bacula performs the backups very accurately which is clearly noticed when a restore is performed
    • Its ease of use helps in training new support team members
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    Commvault
    • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
    • Improves our Disaster Recovery
    • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Bacula Systems
    • Our team always points out the same problems, I believe that, today, is our biggest complaint: The interface (both graphical and the CLI) still needs improvement.
    • There is no mobile app to manage backups and restores from smartphones
    • Manual installation is time consuming.
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    Commvault
    • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
    • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
    • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bacula Systems
    Easy to use, proactive and effective customer support, and simple deployment method. The high configurability is what makes this tool so effective for my organization - at no point do I have any issues of trust as to the restorability of a fileset. The GUI provided gives clear actionable reports as to the effectivity of the jobs performed.
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    Commvault
    It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Bacula Systems
    This is a hard question. Usability for whom? For someone who is very comfortable at the command line and willing to put in the time to learn Bacula Enterprise's configuration syntax, it's very usable. Just don't expect to be an expert immediately.
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    Commvault
    Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Bacula Systems
    They're excellent, fast to respond and knowledgeable. I can't fault the support provided at all. On every occasion that we've had a need to contact them during our evaluation, installation, and use of Bacula Enterprise, they've always given us the help that we required. The responses they provide are detailed and we always feel that they've taken the time to read and understand our issue and give a full and personalized answer.
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    Commvault
    I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
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    In-Person Training
    Bacula Systems
    The professor understood the tool very well, it was a fact that he had mastery over the system and knew what he was talking about, clearing up all doubts and passing on all the necessary knowledge so that we could handle Bacula Enterprise in our organization.
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    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
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    Online Training
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bacula Systems
    Bacula Systems and especially Bacula Brazil were extremely attentive and served us very well, making all implementations or changes work perfectly
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    Commvault
    Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bacula Systems
    I used CTERA almost from the time they started up. In short, it was very easy to use but configuration was limited; and in the end the agents were troublesome and I could not restore files. They had one person on staff who was terrific with tech support, when he left support became difficult and I lost confidence. Acronis was my first experience with a bare-metal recovery operation and it was terrific. Really saved the day. I would still be using it except the licensing was difficult and expensive and the software wasn't Linux friendly.
    Incentivized
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    Commvault
    In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
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    Scalability
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
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    Return on Investment
    Bacula Systems
    • Our Disaster Recovery policy in regards to backups and archiving is made possible because of our use of Bacula Enterprise.
    • TCO is very low as the yearly subscription is very competitively priced. Management of the software is very low so we don't have to spend hours maintaining our backups.
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    Commvault
    • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
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