We performed a comparison between Bacula Enterprise and IBM Spectrum Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."
"Bacula is pretty stable."
"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."
"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."
"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."
"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."
"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."
"Regarding stability, it's been rock solid."
"The ability to do dedupe in the product is nice to have."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"The most valuable features of the product are data deduplication and disaster recovery."
"The backup on real-time, especially for the virtual machine, archiving, and retrieving the reader from the backup repository and getting it online, getting it validated, then performing the data consistency check over the backup."
"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"A robust tool which allows us to backup pretty much any environment, virtual or physical."
"The main thing is to keep the data safe and in files, keep it on tape ready for a request from a bank, and it is working perfectly with all our hardware."
"The initial setup could be a bit easier."
"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."
"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."
"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."
"Bacula needs a graphical user interface because, for administrators, the command-line interface is okay, but for the average user it is not very easy."
"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."
"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."
"The solution needs to work on disaster recovery integration. Basically, VMware applications to the cloud, for example. There needs to be integration with the storage, and integration with VMware."
"The administration interface should implement more functionalities that exist only in the command line and needs improvement in how some reports are created."
"We are having a balance issue between the reclamation and the backup function. It has to take the space back from the tapes before it can record to those tapes, but sometimes those two processes are overlapping."
"It seems like they are a little behind on the integration to Azure Cloud as well as Amazon."
"The usability of IBM Spectrum Protect could be improved, specifically additional features to the product in the operations center. Additional reporting facilities and stronger reporting tools such as build dashboards would be beneficial."
"Sometimes we experience trouble with the backup transfer of the control files."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
Bacula Enterprise is ranked 30th in Backup and Recovery with 9 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Bacula Enterprise is rated 8.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Bacula Enterprise writes "Very cost-effective and well organized with good compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Bacula Enterprise is most compared with Bareos, Veeam Backup & Replication, UrBackup, Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Bacula Enterprise vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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