Bacula Enterprise vs. N2WS Backup & Recovery

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.N/A
N2WS Backup & Recovery
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
N2WS Backup & Recovery is a lightweight tool built to integrate into any enterprise AWS environment.
$199
per month
Pricing
Bacula EnterpriseN2WS Backup & Recovery
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$199
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bacula EnterpriseN2WS Backup & Recovery
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Bacula EnterpriseN2WS Backup & Recovery
Features
Bacula EnterpriseN2WS Backup & Recovery
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Bacula Enterprise
9.4
52 Ratings
10% above category average
N2WS Backup & Recovery
8.6
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Universal recovery9.11 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Instant recovery10.037 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Recovery verification10.045 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Business application protection3.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.050 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.051 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.031 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.844 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Snapshots10.039 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment10.047 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Management dashboard9.649 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Platform support10.051 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Retention options9.852 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Encryption10.041 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bacula EnterpriseN2WS Backup & Recovery
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(52 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bacula EnterpriseN2WS Backup & Recovery
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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N2W Software, Inc.
N2WS Backup & Recovery is well suited for backing up aws and aws related services and workloads. The backup management is very easier using N2WS backup and recovery, restores are also fast and N2WS Backup & Recovery provides option to restore to different regions as well and that helps in Disaster recovery kind of testing scenarios
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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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N2W Software, Inc.
  • Faster Backup
  • Faster restores
  • Easier BackupManagement
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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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N2W Software, Inc.
  • GUI can be improved
  • Physical and Vmware servers backup
  • Complexity of permissions
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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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N2W Software, Inc.
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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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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Bacula Systems
Bacula Enterprise is always available when we need it, both the backup solution and system support
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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Performance
Bacula Systems
Operation in the Bacula system has a light and fast interface and reports are generated almost instantly. Perhaps if Bacula is integrated with other solutions it may lose some performance
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N2W Software, Inc.
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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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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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.
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N2W Software, Inc.
For AWS based workloads N2WS Backup & Recovery suited best comparing the features and compatibility from the compared applications for backup testing. N2WS Backup & Recovery implementation is also faster and easy to setup. Restores is faster and also provided options to recover to different regions which is not available with the other backup applications at a easy level
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Bacula Systems
Regarding contracts, negotiations were extremely accessible and clear in every sales model offered.
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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Bacula Systems
Bacula provides intelligent scalability by expanding backups across multiple environments, data backup, Oracle, virtual machines, Office365, cloud...
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N2W Software, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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N2W Software, Inc.
  • Easier management
  • Faster restores
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