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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

    Veeam Backup for AWS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.

    $40

    per year instance

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    Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Backup for AWS
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    Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Backup for AWS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Backup for AWS
    Considered Both Products
    Bacula Systems
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    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    Reviews of Bacula state is works in much the same way as Veeam does – you set up a schedule for your backups and then configure your backups based on the needs of your business. Bacula also comes with a host of features that you might find useful, including plug-ins for …
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    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Backup for AWS
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Bacula Enterprise and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    9.4
    49 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery9.11 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Instant recovery10.034 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Recovery verification10.042 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Business application protection3.02 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.047 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.048 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.029 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.741 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Snapshots10.036 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Flexible deployment10.044 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.646 Ratings8.673 Ratings
    Platform support10.048 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Retention options9.749 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Encryption10.038 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Bacula Enterprise and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Bacula Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.2
    82 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.975 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings7.173 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (49 ratings)
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (106 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Backup for AWS
    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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    Veeam Software
    I like the idea of using this product for backups and cold storage. This allows for long retention times and a very low cost. The ability to quickly restore and the efficiency of all the products involved. I haven't come across scenarios where it isn't appropriate. I don't have a lot of experience so for me, it works well in my cases.
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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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    Veeam Software
    • Veeam Backup for AWS provides a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS workloads.
    • It's very easily integrated with the AWS cloud.
    • The Simple and intuitive user interface of Veeam Backup for AWS makes it easy to set up and manage backups for AWS instances.
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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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    Veeam Software
    • We have never managed to use Veeam for Azure or GCP. It works well with AWS.
    • A client needed a multi-cloud DR solution management but we had a security issue and could find a solution from Veeam Backup for AWS.
    • Usually, you need a dedicated resource to monitor when the number of workloads is high. That adds to the cost.
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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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    Veeam Software
    We have been using Veeam Backup for AWS for our cloud hosted solutions for the last several years and will continue to do so. The ease of use and available support staff make the learning curve for use nearly flat in our case and having Veeam Backup for on-premise workloads makes the decision easy.
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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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    Veeam Software
    The UI and the integration is good with the product. so far
    has not encountered any major challenges while using the UI. of course, this is
    user perspective. Few users suggested some different view that it should be
    change father should have some different options but overall the feedback about
    UI is positive and no major issues encountered by using the UI or forsake of
    this usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Veeam Backup has never failed me, whenever we have needed to recover data it has worked flawlessly. It is highly available and I do not know of of a situation where our business has needed Veeam Backup fo AWS and has not been able to access or use it in some way.
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    Performance
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have not really noticed much difference and only notice it when doing work afterhours with our veeam being backed up. However, this is not the case as we do not do this often and hence we don't really have any real challenges for performance issues. Overall, we find that the performance is pretty good
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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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    Veeam Software
    One of the best and leading backup solution with central management for all Virtual Servers, Physical servers and Application level backup. Migrated from distributed backup solution running at each site to central VEEAM solution which has reduced overhead of backup administrator and improves the backup performance. Veeam team is very supportive in solution design, taken care of all our requirements and provided the cost effective solution.
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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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    Veeam Software
    We had only one due to the pandemic, but we remember really enjoying the help. Someone came to our site and walked us through the process and we had lots of time to ask questions and got really helpful solutions and tips and tricks to make sure that staff would understand and learn how to use it
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    Online Training
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    The training provided online was good. The training was restrictive to users but was content was good and informative. The information provided was relevent and flow was maintained well. The Question and answers were good and supported well. Need to have more material provided with the training and will support users to adopt train the trainer approach.
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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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    Veeam Software
    We were pretty happy with our implementation as it was simple to deploy and we followed the technical guide online with out much technical assistance from vendor support. We had also tested and streamlined a process based on our own documentation for our own company which was simple to follow overall for deploying into AWS for future instances
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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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    Veeam Software
    I had looked at N2WS Backup & Recovery backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS environments. But while it provides similar backup and recovery capabilities as Veeam Backup for AWS, it lacks some of the advanced features such as instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Overall, we pretty happy with the way it is contracted and the pricing structure. However, as stated we got it on promotion so we wont know until what it is after the 3 years but at this stage we are pretty happy with the product and the pricing from the commercial aspect
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    Scalability
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have using this solution since 2020. In that moment we had four Host Linux and today we have forty vm Linux and Windows. The solution work fine as with few vm as multiples vm. The backup operators lovely this feacture, because keep simple his duties. Finally, we use the same solution for AWS, Azure or onpremise. This is great characteristic for skill transfer over backup team!
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    Professional Services
    Bacula Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Generally satisfied
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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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    Veeam Software
    • The only thing is that you have to make sure you understand your AWS costs if your retention periods are not kept under control.
    • ROI is hard to prove until the moment you need to restore your workload.
    • Time-saving is something that comes to mind. Before Veeam, we used to spend/waste a lot of time verifying and testing our backup and restore. Veeam makes it easy with its SureBackup technology.
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    ScreenShots

    Veeam Backup for AWS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview page detailing high-level information like alarms, protected instances, policies, and session information.Screenshot of Policies page detailing available policies, status and sessions log.Screenshot of Estimated monthly costs in policy wizard for snapshots, replicas, backups, traffic and transactions for machines in a policy.Screenshot of File Level Recovery, where individual files and folders can be searched and browsed for granular recovery.