We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP 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."The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too."
"I would recommend it if there is a general case."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"It's simple to set up."
"It is very stable."
"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"It's durable — we achieve what we expect from it."
"It was especially useful with the appliances we use on a daily basis."
"The Replication Director, Auto Image Replication, Accelerator, Oracle Intelligent Policy, synthetic and VADP backups are the most valuable features."
"Deduplication is quite efficient. It is not a complex product. It is quite simple."
"The most valuable feature from Veritas NetBackup is the data is very easy to backup. It is similar to VMware. They recently introduced a cloud feature that is useful."
"We have an issue with the last version on the latest backup of the solution as it is not compatible with Sybase 16.5."
"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."
"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."
"I had an issue with Arcserve UDP during the failover and the secondary machine didn't get back online, even though it ran automatically. I faced the issue during a crisis situation. However, I haven't faced such a problem again."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
"The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers."
"What needs to be improved in Veritas NetBackup is its interface, e.g. they should make it more user friendly. Scalability for this product could still be improved, particularly its hardware appliance scalability."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"The product is not able to keep up with other competitors in the market."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
"Veritas could simplify the firmware recovery in terms of the deployed. The process shouldn't be dependent on the agents. It should be completely agentless."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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