Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 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
Veeam Data Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.
$428
per year per 5 instances
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Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Data Platform
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$428
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Data Platform
Considered Both Products
Bacula Enterprise
Chose Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise supports more systems and is free software.has plugin for postgres, oracle, windows and all linuxwhile HYCU only supports NUTANIX and backs up the entire VM, not very good compression software.HYCU has a closed architecture, I can't complain about the graphics …
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 …
Chose Bacula Enterprise
Lower cost of the tool, no limitation of backup data, and plugins compatible with the type of services we have in our data center.
Chose Bacula Enterprise
Veeam Backup & Replication is easy to use and powerful, but I really didn't like that it's closed-source (Bacula Enterprise is open source--you pay for support), so I have no way of looking into what it's doing. Veeam only runs on Windows, and is more focused on VMs; our …
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 …
Chose Bacula Enterprise
Veeam was mostly supported on the Windows platform, and we wanted more Unix-end solution, which will be fast-driven, and not too resource intensive.
Chose Bacula Enterprise
Other backup products not listed here: AWS Backup, Rsync, Custom Scripts

Veeam Data Platform
Chose Veeam Data Platform
We were actually using the open-source version of Bacula. We switched because with Veeam Data Platform we could do full VM backups, and it was easier to train new staff on the backup procedure. However, Bacula did a great job for what it was and saved us money.
Chose Veeam Data Platform
We have supported and used Veeam with our clients, so the solution definitely had an advantage over all of them except Tivoli. But, the [ease of] deployment really got our hearts. Did I mention we spent only 6 hours deploying it, whereas Nakivo took us 2 days to just understand …
Chose Veeam Data Platform
Easier to configure and maitain. More stable too.
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Features
Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Data Platform
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Bacula Enterprise
9.3
46 Ratings
13% above category average
Veeam Data Platform
9.1
180 Ratings
11% above category average
Universal recovery9.11 Ratings9.9146 Ratings
Instant recovery10.031 Ratings9.0157 Ratings
Recovery verification10.040 Ratings9.4160 Ratings
Business application protection3.02 Ratings9.0146 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.044 Ratings10.0170 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.045 Ratings9.5176 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.527 Ratings8.0108 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.038 Ratings9.4164 Ratings
Snapshots10.035 Ratings9.0153 Ratings
Flexible deployment10.043 Ratings9.0143 Ratings
Management dashboard8.543 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Platform support10.046 Ratings8.5146 Ratings
Retention options9.746 Ratings9.5148 Ratings
Encryption10.035 Ratings9.5128 Ratings
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User Ratings
Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(46 ratings)
9.4
(635 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
9.9
(31 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(6 ratings)
9.6
(26 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(6 ratings)
Performance
-
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8.9
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(17 ratings)
9.9
(32 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.8
(2 ratings)
10.0
(19 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.6
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.6
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bacula EnterpriseVeeam Data Platform
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
We have a small deployment with a handful of physical hosts and two dozen or so virtual servers. It's been a perfect fit for us to manage all those backups and to restore entire systems from or even pull specific files/folders from a backup as needed if just a few things need changed/rolled back.
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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
  • File-level restore is quick, reliable, and much simpler than other platforms I've used
  • Replication is extremely simple to configure and test
  • Agent setup for user endpoints and subsequent backup storage is incredibly simple
  • Cloud repository configuration is extremely straightforward and well-documented
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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
  • Support could stand to improve by a bit. The level of support has seemingly lessened over the years I've been using it.
  • It needs to be able to report backup repository statistics better when XFS and ReFS are in use.
  • It could be a little better about cleaning up after itself (old logs, etc.).
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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
I have used many other data backup products that are on the market. I trust the configuration options within Veeam to do as they are labeled, without any specific back end software changes that may cause backups to fail if you don't use a systems integrator.
I trust the product for my own home environment as well due to relationship I have with the product at work.
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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
Veeam is fairly simple in terms of how it is set up; its not an overly-complicated dashboard that can be intimidating to less technically-inclined users. Veeam also offers good instructional videos to help users work through how to do specific functions. I appreciate that they have specific video tutorials rather than having users scroll through a cumbersome manual.
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Reliability and Availability
Bacula Systems
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
The Veeam Backup & Replication solution is up and running every time you need it as it was planned. In more than 3 years that we have been using the product every night, it might have failed or presented an error once or twice, so the availability percentage is almost at 100%.
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Performance
Bacula Systems
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
Veeam does a good job with backing up our servers in a timely manner. We are still at the beginning of our Veeam use and are pleased with the speed at which we can access the system as well as the backups and restore points. Veeam is definitely superior to our previous backup system in terms of speed and accessibility
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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
The support team has never asked me to jump through silly hoops or waste time on pointless exercises. They seem to truly have a handle on what may be wrong. In fact, when we were having trouble getting our license renewal setup (because of yet another license migration at Veeam) a support incident got us connected to the right people to get our renewal done in time.
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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
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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Veeam Software
(I assume this question should say "Veeam" and not "Crownpeak Universal Consent Platform") Planning is key. Planning your backup schedule, size, data restore points, replication if you're doing that, &c. Testing is also important; make sure you back something up and then do a test restore. Set up alerts so you know if things aren't working (or even if they are, always good to know that too).
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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
We used Zerto and CA Arcserve to address these needs without migrating to Veeam Backup & Replication. Zerto is a very successful instant backup and we are still using it now. It does what Veeam application cannot do in instant replication. CA Arcserve, on the other hand, is clearly lagging behind the Veeam Backup & Replication product and does not meet today's requirements.
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Scalability
Bacula Systems
No answers on this topic
Veeam Software
In terms of scalability for our company, Veeam was able to cover our backup needs with ease. They have options for even more individualized backup if we were to need them; i.e. if a specific workstation needs its own independent backup. We have not used these resources yet, but I am confident they will be beneficial to our company in the near future.
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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
  • Confidence before starting riskier maintenance windows is a large component of what veeam is able to offer for us
  • Some of the segmentation between different backup servers across our data enters causes unnecessary delays or backups that are duplicated unnecessarily
  • Lack of certain storage vendors being natively supported requires hacky workarounds not fit for a production environment
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ScreenShots

Veeam Data Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Veeam Backup Community Edition can be used to migrate a live VMware VM to any host or data store—even if clusters or shared storage are not used.Screenshot of Reduces storage needs by eliminating redundant VM data, with Veeam data deduplication.Screenshot of To enable WAN acceleration, the user needs to deploy a pair of WAN accelerators in the backup infrastructureScreenshot of SharePoint items can be located and restored to the original or new SharePoint site, sent by e-mail or saved to the specified locationScreenshot of The user can restore virtual and physical machines from Veeam backups directly to Microsoft Azure.Screenshot of The user can restore Microsoft SharePoint items in a couple of minutes.