We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas Backup Exec based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison. According to its users, it is a powerful, comprehensive, and mature solution. Veeam Backup & Replication also received higher marks for its support than Veritas Backup Exec did.
"The solution is easy to use and have good performance."
"Instant recovery, ease of use, and integrations are some of the valuable features."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use, good integration with others solutions, such as Oracle ERP, and by using the UI you can create and achieve operations you want to do."
"Pricing is fairly reasonable and not overly expensive."
"Veeam Backup has many valuable features and every feature is different. I have created backups for file-level backup, VMware or hypervisor virtual machines, physical machines, and workstations as well. Every time, I learn something new."
"I like all the backup features in Veeam."
"Veeam Backup Replication's most valuable features are the ease of use and the interface is very configurable for the users. It's a very familiar solution in Algeria."
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"It is a good backup tool."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"Some support replies for a broken backup task have been "rebuild the job from scratch" and this is a bad thing to do if you have many VMs and repositories."
"I only ever found one error. It was when we were doing a file copy job. After using it for ten minutes, it would slow down and cause a bottleneck error."
"The product is missing some commonsense features and tools for an enterprise backup recovery product,"
"The initial setup is complex."
"All our customers would like a cheaper license and more flexible deployment."
"The tech support needs improvement."
"The tech support could be better."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Veeam Backup & Replication vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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