We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: When searching for the best Backup and Recovery Software solution, PeerSpot users feel Veeam Backup & Replication is the best choice. Veeam offers great integrations, scales easily, is very easy to use and is very cost-effective. Many users feel Dell Avamar is outdated and requires a significant learning curve, making it a less desirable solution.
"The stability of Dell EMC Avamar is very good."
"Effective in protecting the virtualization system and end points."
"Quick incremental backups and product replication are the two highlights of the product. Once you capture a full backup, incrementals are pretty quick. It is fairly efficient from that perspective."
"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."
"The setup is very easy."
"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."
"The backup and recovery speed is very fast."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"Sandbox feature is like a power tool for troubleshooting."
"Very user-friendly and easily recoverable."
"The technical support is excellent. It's one of the best I've met so far."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"The solution offers the normal benefits of a virtual machine versus a physical, actual machine. It doesn't take up space, for example."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days."
"While I do not recall whether the latest version is 10.0 or 11.0 I do know that it allows one to make a back up repository that is very scalable and simple."
"We don't trust the product 100 percent. Kaspersky has many features Dell Avamar doesn't support, such as granular backup and history."
"The product could be improved by simplifying the components available."
"It is very scalable, and that's its claim to fame, but that also makes it hard to make changes. Anytime there is a large piece of software, changing that piece of software is harder. You've got a larger install base, so you can't just rapidly change. We also use another product called Veeam, and it has this new feature called Continuous Data Protection, which basically lets you get very close to the way the system was in time. We have a system or two up there on which we have set 10 minutes Continuous Data Protection. So, we can roll it back to whatever it was 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes ago, or 30 minutes ago. This feature doesn't exist in Avamar Data Domain. That's the one feature I'd like to see first."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"It's very slow to backup and store information. It has two consoles and an application which are more difficult to use than a solution like Veeam."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"The challenges we do face typically revolve around aligning specific features with our accustomed tool usage."
"think backing up from physical servers and ransomware security needs some improvements."
"The only improvement I could think of is it could be cheaper—cheaper is always good. Sometimes the product is just finished. Cheaper is always nice for the customer, but the company needs to benefit so that they can keep maintaining the product. New Windows versions, etc., always take some work. At the moment, I wouldn't switch to another solution because of the money."
"I would like for them to develop the ability to fix the way it does backups. We can't pick a backup for one database. We have to do a backup on the whole Exchange VM. I'd like for them to change it to where we can do individual backups."
"There's a situation where VMs run on different locks. It's running on the VM while having a relationship with nearby solutions running on the same server and storage. This creates a bottleneck that needs to be eliminated."
"I have also been struggling with the storage and in some cases I need to move things due to performance."
"The SME that helped us with the implementation would probably have more insight because he used it way more than we have. We just use it for making sure that our backups are done daily, and the replications are being performed between sites. We haven't had any issues at all with it other than the fact that there is a slight process to acquire additional licenses if we want to expand our number of hosts. That's because it is based on the number of cores and threads that are used."
"Device backup could be improved."
"I don't see much room for improvement except that the price could be better."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA), Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Arcserve UDP. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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