We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Guard and Veritas NetBackup 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."Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."
"You can see how the logs are applied, check the apply time, and how far behind the standby is at any given time."
"The most valuable feature is the flashback standby, which allows us to test without scrapping the database."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"The solution can scale as needed."
"The solution has been stable so far."
"We have found the replication feature the most useful. We use this feature the most. The ability to recover a database with less effort and the use of Oracle Data Guard Broker to administer the complete environment are also very useful features."
"We have an issue with the last version on the latest backup of the solution as it is not compatible with Sybase 16.5."
"It has been around for so long, and it is very in-depth. It has a solution for everything that you can cover."
"They are among the top in the world for backup and recovery."
"I like the cross-platform features."
"Best feature is its three-tier backup."
"We were evaluating other products and getting confused between Commvault and Veritas NetBackup. The one reason that we started with Veritas NetBackup is the pricing of the license. There's no other reason from a technical perspective or even operation or capability of the two software. The main reason we chose Veritas NetBackup was that in our use case it is more cost-effective."
"The reporting is very good, with all of the details highlighted and very clear."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Oracle Data Guard is stable, but you need to keep monitoring the system all the time. You need to keep monitoring the archives."
"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."
"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."
"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."
"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."
"It is a rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."
"The IP implementation and maintenance are a little bit hard to manage across Oracle solutions, including Oracle Data Guard."
"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"I have been involved in upgrades. They have not been straightforward. Some of them have required us to make changes to our architecture and production environment."
"The user interface could improve, it seems a bit out of date."
"The pricing is a bit of a concern. If could be lower."
"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and is in need of improvement."
"Within their product lineup, they need to consolidate down to one product. Veritas doesn't have one product that does everything. So, Veritas can do everything, but you basically need to run two products. I would like them to combine all the capabilities into one release."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"I would like to have support enabled for cloud backups."
Oracle Data Guard is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Carbonite Server, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Oracle Data Guard vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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