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Feature Set Ratings
- NAKIVO Backup & Replication ranks higher in 1 feature set: Data Center Backup
Data Center Backup

7.1
Bacula Enterprise
71%
9.2
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
92%
NAKIVO Backup & Replication ranks higher in 12/14 features
NAKIVO Backup & Replication ranks higher in 12/14 features
Universal recovery

9.1
91%
1 Rating
9.1
91%
72 Ratings
Live recovery

6.9
69%
9 Ratings
8.7
87%
71 Ratings
Recovery verification

6.5
65%
19 Ratings
9.2
92%
75 Ratings
Business application protection

3.0
30%
2 Ratings
9.2
92%
67 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations

8.2
82%
24 Ratings
9.3
93%
76 Ratings
Incremental backup identification

7.8
78%
24 Ratings
9.3
93%
79 Ratings
Backup to the cloud

9.9
99%
12 Ratings
9.6
96%
57 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression

6.9
69%
18 Ratings
8.8
88%
80 Ratings
Snapshots

8.2
82%
15 Ratings
9.4
94%
75 Ratings
Flexible deployment

3.8
38%
21 Ratings
9.2
92%
45 Ratings
Management dashboard

4.3
43%
21 Ratings
9.2
92%
51 Ratings
Platform support

7.1
71%
24 Ratings
9.2
92%
50 Ratings
Retention options

7.1
71%
24 Ratings
9.3
93%
50 Ratings
Encryption

10.0
100%
15 Ratings
9.2
92%
47 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Bacula Enterprise is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Support Rating
- NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated higher in 2 areas: Usability, Implementation Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

9.9
Bacula Enterprise
99%
24 Ratings
8.9
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
89%
87 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

10.0
Bacula Enterprise
100%
3 Ratings
9.1
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
91%
4 Ratings
Usability

8.5
Bacula Enterprise
85%
4 Ratings
9.4
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
94%
42 Ratings
Support Rating

9.8
Bacula Enterprise
98%
25 Ratings
9.7
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
97%
50 Ratings
Implementation Rating

8.0
Bacula Enterprise
80%
1 Rating
8.2
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
82%
3 Ratings
Contract Terms and Pricing Model

Bacula Enterprise
N/A
0 Ratings
9.2
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
92%
32 Ratings
Professional Services

Bacula Enterprise
N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
91%
13 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise is not the easiest backup software to work with--you are expected to be competent at the command line and editing complex configuration files, even if you mostly use the web GUI for day-to-day operations. However, study is rewarded--you can do many very complex things. Easy things may not always be easy, but very hard things are possible (unlike many competitors that make easy things easy and hard things impossible).
I would not recommend Bacula to someone who just wants a quick plug and play solution; but in my opinion your backups and disaster recovery system shouldn't be plug and play - that's a great way to feel good about a solution that won't actually work for you when it's needed!
Director of IT, McLean Imaging Center
McLean HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
If you are using VM is it the perfect solution at an affordable cost. I moved to NAKIVO Backup & Replication after my last backup software was charging me above affordable prices. It was a cheap and stable solution for us. It has covered all our needs. The restore has been tested, and it works without any issues. This product is suited for companies that have a small budget and want to keep all their data safe.
Information Technology Manager
MSF Greece - Médecins Sans Frontières GreeceNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Pros
Bacula Enterprise
- The support services provided by Bacula Systems are superb. They usually respond extremely quickly and have clear and useful answers upfront, which is a welcome change. Their support enabled us to get Bacula Enterprise up and running quickly and well configured, in a relatively short period of time. In addition, they also offer proactive support on a yearly basis. This involves sending an automatically generated report on your system configuration and status from which they provide advice on any issues or configuration problems that they find. I haven't seen this level of proactive support from another company.
- The configuration is extremely powerful and flexible. If you're used to dealing with text-based configuration files then you'll find this system familiar. It also fits well with configuration management tools - in our case, Puppet - allowing the configuration across the whole system to be managed centrally. The flexibility of the system allowed us to have backups running exactly when and how we wanted, performing staging to tape via disk, and with various admin, tasks to automate the handling of tapes within our tape library.
- The command-line console tool allows all operations to be done from the command line. In an emergency situation, or stuck in a datacentre with only a dumb console, being able to do everything via the command line is an important feature to have.
- Bweb is an optional extra that provides a web-based interface for both management and configuration. If you don't want to edit text files and use the command line console tool then Bweb is the best interface to use. We don't use it for configuration (favoring external tools for managing the text-based configuration), but we do use it to monitor backups and perform restores. It provides an excellent overview of what's happening with the system.
- The manuals, whitepapers, and additional documentation cover everything in detail. The whitepapers give a good overview of the installation, concepts, and specific scenarios, whilst the manuals cover in more depth how specific areas work and how the configuration is handled. It's very easy to find out what a particular option means and does.
- The software can run on and is supported on, a wide variety of operating systems, including Ubuntu which is what we use. This is a level of flexibility that was important to us after being tied to RHEL for our previous backup system.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employeesNAKIVO Backup & Replication
- Frequent backups do not affect the server load especially when the store is based on a high-performance NAS. We use OMV and average a GB per Minute per backup.
- Offsite backups to a hosted store on AWS or Wsabi is simple.
- VM replication is simple to set up.
- Backup compression and encryption is excellent.
Owner
Camargue SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
Bacula Enterprise
- Takes a while to get used to the software. It's not something that you can just install and work away with. You need to figure it out first. We did get a free training course when we purchased the Bacula Enterprise version which we found very useful.
- Support Documentation is very in depth but it's a tough read sometimes. Takes a while to understand the concepts from this documentation. Could do with making the documentation a small bit easier to understand.
IT Infrastructure Engineer
DPD IrelandTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
- Physical Linux host backup using their agent software supports various types of Linux storage volumes (LVMs) - I have not tested this in over a year since facing some issues early on.
- Continued improvement on the UI making it quicker to find common tasks and more intuitive.

Verified User
Strategist in Information Technology
Computer & Network Security Company, 1-10 employeesPricing Details
Bacula Enterprise
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Bacula Enterprise Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—NAKIVO Backup & Replication
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Editions & Modules
Edition
Pro Essentials | $251 |
---|---|
Enterprise Essentials | $351 |
Pro | $401 |
Enterprise | Contact Vendor |
- per workload
- none
Additional Pricing Details
A workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (01 server and 03 workstations), an Oracle database, or an Amazon EC2 instance.Likelihood to Renew
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise 10.0
Based on 3 answers
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 11-50 employeesNAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.1
Based on 4 answers
It's great. It works, it's cost effective and it's easy to maintain. I don't see us ever changing away from Nakivo Backup and Replication to any other product. We are very impressed and satisfied with the results.
IT Director
Women's Pavilion of South MississippiMedical Practice, 51-200 employees
Usability
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise 8.5
Based on 4 answers
It still has a lot of flaws to overcome, especially in the area of user friendliness. Searching and filtering is quite cumbersome. Once you find the job you from which you want to restore, be sure to write that job number down because you won't be able to quickly find the job again without it during a recovery.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employeesNAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.4
Based on 42 answers
Wherever NAKIVO runs (as a dedicated VM, an application on NAS, as an installed service) you get a concise Web interface through encrypted communication. One is able to check and monitor the backups quickly and in detail, if needed. Notifications, Warnings, and Alarms are grouped and bundled so that you can work with them promptly.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Corporate
Accounting Company, 11-50 employeesSupport Rating
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise 9.8
Based on 25 answers
We have always been very well served by Bacula Enterprise support. The response time is excellent, and any doubts or problems are resolved quickly and easily, avoiding complications and the evolution of problems that could arise. Only praise for Bacula Enterprise's service and support. The monitoring of the entire process from acquisition to implementation was very well done.
Innovation Director
Prefeitura Municipal de Aparecida de GoiâniaGovernment Administration, 10,001+ employees
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.7
Based on 50 answers
The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
ITK Hoch 2 GmbhComputer & Network Security, 1-10 employees
Implementation Rating
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise 8.0
Based on 1 answer
Ensure the backup traffic goes through separate traffic as the other environment.
ESCRYPT IT Teamlead Bochum
ESCRYPT GmbhInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication 8.2
Based on 3 answers
Configuring a dedicated Nakivo backup server with local storage and additional Linux NAS storage units for immutability is key. Backed-up data is only useful if it can be restored.
Owner
Camargue SolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Bacula Enterprise
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.
Director of Information Technology
Architectural Design Consultants, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 11-50 employees
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is easier to deploy, even for initial and full deployment. But in our case, we deploy it as an OVA, so we keep it easier. We also can create new backup jobs quickly and restore damaged VMs in very few steps. We do not ever detect a depletion in-network Bandwith on the backup process nor restore ones.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employeesContract Terms and Pricing Model
Bacula Enterprise
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.2
Based on 32 answers
Our customer has a small infrastructure, so we could make good use of the "one-shot" Nakivo license. Our customer does not need to pay a fee every year (although you are requested to pay a subscription in order to have updates and support, that is only fair) and we could grant them a top-notch product.
Pezzanera OfficeInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Professional Services
Bacula Enterprise
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication 9.1
Based on 13 answers
I contacted a few times Nakivo representatives, once for technical doubt and the other ones for commercial ones. Both support services are fast and reliable.
Pezzanera OfficeInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Bacula Enterprise
- Quite transparently for the applications to allow online backup and guaranteed enough confidence due to its efficient algorithms of verification of media and blocks.
- The cost of purchasing and updating the annual support is very low compared to other "Veeam and Backup Exec" tools that I analyzed in the pre-project phase.
Manage Network and Virtualization
Claudino SARetail, 501-1000 employees
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
- Due to ease of use, NAKIVO allowed us to spend more time on other tasks knowing that our backup system will just run as expected.
- Since moving to NAKIVO, we've been able to do away with tapes and move to a disk/cloud-based model.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 501-1000 employees