We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Veritas Backup Exec 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."Easy restoration and the solution works quickly."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"It is very stable."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."
"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"The flexibility is very good."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."
"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."
"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Rubrik, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas Alta SaaS Protection. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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