Bacula Enterprise vs. NetBackup Flex Appliances

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Bacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.N/A
NetBackup Flex Appliances
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
NetBackup Flex appliances provides cyber resilience with a zero-trust architecture designed to defend against external attacks, credential compromise, insider threats, and malware infiltration.N/A
Pricing
Bacula EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bacula EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
Free Trial
NoNo
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 EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
Considered Both Products
Bacula Enterprise
Chose Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise can do everything that we have needed to do with competing products. It may require a script be written, but there is a massive set of resources available online, and a wealth of experience in the support team that can guide us if needed.
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NetBackup Flex Appliances

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Features
Bacula EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Bacula Enterprise
9.4
49 Ratings
11% above category average
NetBackup Flex Appliances
-
Ratings
Universal recovery9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery10.034 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification10.042 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection3.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.047 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.741 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots10.036 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment10.044 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.546 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.749 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption10.038 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Bacula EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.1 out of 10
Acronis True Image
Acronis True Image
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.1 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Backup
IBM Cloud Backup
Score 10.0 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Bacula EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(49 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(17 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bacula EnterpriseNetBackup Flex Appliances
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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Cohesity
Seamless integration with NetBackup
Backup server, storage & de-duplication from one vendor
Scalable flexibility
Deploy across all environments - DC, VMs, remote office
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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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Cohesity
  • NetBackup Appliance is the best effective backup and restore solution out in the market for enterprise level.
  • Fastest deduplication available in the appliance.
  • First time ever V-ray implementation.
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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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Cohesity
  • It's doing what we want.
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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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Cohesity
using Netbackup Appliance makes my work simple for Backup and Recovery .
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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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Cohesity
It has been efficient over the years that we acquired it.
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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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Cohesity
Support is great so far.
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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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Cohesity
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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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Cohesity
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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.
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Cohesity
1) Storage: Reduce storage cost by replacing with Veritas intelligent deduplication.
2) Space
Save valuable floor space by combining both the backup server and deduplication storage into one appliance.
3) Power and Cooling
As an ENERGY STAR compliant backup appliance, the NetBackup 5330 reduces floor space and power consumption, letting you to
do more with your IT budget.
4) Robust Greater performance compared to the NetBackup 5230: Up to 3X faster backup, 5.8X faster recovery, and 4.9X faster replication. 5) Greater density
Delivers more TB per rack unit (RU) which reduces floor space requirements and lowers power and cooling costs.
6) Intelligent end-to-end deduplication
Reduces the size of backups by up to 50 times and network bandwidth utilization by up to 99 percent, so you can backup and replicate faster.
7) Flexible deduplication options
Deduplication at source, media server, or target; inline or post-process.
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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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Cohesity
  • Improved operational efficiency.
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