We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect 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."It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly."
"Some of the most valuable features are recovery, protection against malware, and software management. I am happy with the dashboards and user interface."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can archive backups quite easily and minimize the amount of space you're using."
"The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."
"The solution has all the features I need and user friendly."
"Centralized management is valuable to us."
"The ability to clone backups."
"For local backups, it has options to back up almost any storage. The back can be either a shared folder or anything you want, it's pretty flexible."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"Veritas is good for small environments."
"This solution has a very good technical support department that is very responsive."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."
"The product needs to have a simple DR process."
"It could back up more things. I don't think it can back up Box and some of the other third-party ones. Not that we use them that much, but the more they can do, the better it would be. There could also be better integrations with RMM tools."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"The solution's error handling can be improved specifically for Linux errors."
"For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain."
"It does not delete locked files."
"If there was a wizard that would lead you down a road, when creating a backup, that would probably be better than having to go online or call somebody to actually do a backup. It's not intuitive..."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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