We performed a comparison between Veritas Backup Exec and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server."
"The most valuable features of Veritas NetBackup Appliance are the ease of use and the familiar interface."
"The intelligent policies feature is used in order to protect the VMware infrastructure. One of the things that makes a big difference for our company is the usage of these intelligence policies. The system automatically provides extra protection for any VMware server application or service. From a backup administrator's point of view, this is what we call peace of mind. It reduces the workload and therefore reduces resources needed from the company."
"The solution uses minimal resources."
"The most valuable feature of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance is the virtual machine backups."
"The NetBackup appliance features customized software that is designed for storage."
"It has been our go-to product for backup."
"The solution is useful for backups."
"The utilization of Data Domain is crucial because of its integration with a key Veritas feature: retention lock. This feature ensures data integrity by preventing any alterations to stored data. When NetBackup interacts with Data Domain, enabling the retention lock feature ensures that neither administrators nor backup personnel can modify data stored within the system. This functionality is vital for compliance purposes and meets the requirements of auditors."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"It is not a recommended software when it comes to large environments where there has to be a minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and/or Recover Point Objective (RPO)."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The challenge arose due to a space issue. The issue was related to disk breaks, especially when power cuts occurred. One of the disks would break, leading to a loss of functionality."
"The response from the support team has not always been quick, so sometimes there is a risk."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
"The tool's pricing is expensive and could be lower."
"With technical support, it feels like they aren't well trained and it takes forever to get answers out of them."
"The configuration can sometimes be tricky during implementation."
"The only drawback for NetBackup, and of course for Veritas, is that they have stuck to the same environment and to the same UI - User Interface. This needs to be improved in future releases. It needs to be more dynamic."
Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 47 reviews. Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), ExaGrid EX Series, DD Boost and HPE StoreOnce. See our Veritas Backup Exec vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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