Barracuda Intronis Backup vs Veritas NetBackup Appliance comparison

Barracuda Networks and Veritas are both solutions in the Deduplication Software category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.0, while Veritas is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Barracuda Networks holds a 1.5% mindshare in DS, compared to Veritas’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

Barracuda Intronis Backup

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2024

Barracuda Intronis Backup and Veritas NetBackup Appliance both provide solutions for data protection and recovery. Barracuda seems to have the upper hand for small to mid-sized organizations due to its ease of use and cost-effectiveness, whereas Veritas is suited for large enterprises with complex needs.

Features: Barracuda Intronis Backup is known for its ease of use, reliable support, and seamless management across different platforms. The simple setup and efficient backup capabilities make it a favorite for straightforward deployments. Veritas NetBackup Appliance, on the other hand, supports complex and scalable environments with a robust feature set, including broad integration capabilities and extensive configuration options.

Room for Improvement: Barracuda could improve its backup speed and expand compatibility with diverse OS platforms. Enhancing technical support responsiveness is also noted. Veritas demands better user interface flexibility, improved cloud integration, and a more straightforward pricing model. Simplifying its configuration and making licensing less expensive would be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Barracuda Intronis Backup supports hybrid, public cloud, and on-premises deployments, resulting in high customer satisfaction for its quick and reliable support. Veritas NetBackup Appliance handles on-premises deployment mostly and receives mixed reviews for its complexity in both deployment and technical support.

Pricing and ROI: Barracuda's pricing is competitive with no hidden fees, leading to a clear ROI and satisfied customers. Veritas offers strong enterprise features but is criticized for its high costs and complex licensing, making it a worthwhile investment only for certain businesses fully utilizing its capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Intronis Backup

Ranking in Deduplication Software

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

MSP Backup (6th)

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

Ranking in Deduplication Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Deduplication Software category, the mindshare of Barracuda Intronis Backup is 1.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is 5.4%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Deduplication Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veritas NetBackup Appliance	5.4%
Barracuda Intronis Backup	1.5%
Other	93.1%

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Gerard Wolters

ICT manager at Oosterhof Holman

Easy to use, immutable, and provides good deduplication features

When we wanted to back up our Microsoft environment, we looked for a cloud backup. Barracuda provided a cloud backup. There were no other products that offered similar features at that time. I will recommend the product to others. It is easy to use. It is a complete package. It is easy to integrate the product with Microsoft. We have a complete package that includes antispam and email gateway solutions. We can choose any package we want. We use Barracuda Essentials. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

Backup management excels with user-friendly interface and effective deduplication, offering robust data protection

Leveraging AI in Veritas NetBackup Appliance is one of the road maps now that they have done a collaboration with Cohesity, which is a feature I'm looking forward to. Using AI is one improvement I recommend for the Veritas NetBackup Appliance. They have implemented some aspects of AI for features such as malware detection and anomaly detection. I believe they can do more to give customers more insight into their data, allowing them to see it and understand what they can do, such as archiving old data. They can do more by utilizing the data effectively to provide insights to customers about their space usage, future projections, and options for managing old data.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The cloud side of it is nice. Everything happens behind the scenes without you realizing it, which is nice. It doesn't interrupt usage. There is also the freedom and ease of use of the cloud portal, which you can use to manage your backup. One of the strong points of Barracuda is that you can go from zero to having your first backup running within 10 minutes. If you have access to admin accounts and everything else, it can happen in 10 minutes. The ability to go in and just restore a particular file without having to do a full restore is also very useful. You can just go in and pick the files that you need to restore, and the same is with email. You can just go in, find an email, and restore that email without having to do a full backup of all the data or a full restore of the data. I feel very safe because it is not just about the backup; it is about the protection of the data from outside threats. They have a lot of areas of ATP, that is, advanced threat protection. You don't see that much on the backup side. You see it more on the email side. In the email protection, you know it is there at the back. It moves the quarantine emails that come through into a sandbox area, and then you can choose in the sandbox. You can open up an email in the sandbox to make sure that if there is a virus, it can't harm you. You can also plan how often your backups run, such as every six hours or four hours. It is the same with email. They also have a great PhishLine package, which is phishing attack training. You can have the strongest and the best backup and security that you can, but the end user is always the weakest link. They send almost like testing emails to end users to help them identify and understand phishing emails and prevent user or phishing attacks. It is a very good package."

"I have found the product's LiveBoot feature to be most valuable."

"The configuration and the onboarding process are pretty good."

"The product is easy to use."

"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."

"Whenever you have a crash or your service is not working, you can just live-boot the machine and have your service up and running."

"They are the best support that we have had so far. When you contact or email them, they are very quick to respond. They always have someone available for us. That's what we want as a customer, we want someone to listen to us."

"Of all the backup products we have used, this by far is the simplest to install and use."

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"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 Oracle Agent and Oracle RAC support are valuable features; they are crucial for taking backups and cloning applications."

"NetBackup Appliance's most valuable feature is the duplication encryption standard feature."

"The benefits I have observed from working with Veritas NetBackup Appliance include the throughput of the appliance, starting from 2 to 50 terabytes per hour, which compares favorably with other competitors' products in this competitive domain."

"I recommend Veritas NetBackup Appliance as a great product worth exploring."

"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."

"I have no stability issues to report...The initial setup is quite simple."

"I can confidently say that I have managed more than 30 or 50 appliances over different time periods, and yet I never had a single hardware failure."

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Cons

"I would like to see the Live Boot feature extended to Hyper-V machines, in addition to VMware machines."

"I would like to see a way to increase space."

"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."

"Its speed can be a bit improved, and of course, its pricing can go a lot cheaper."

"Compared to Avamar and Data Domain (our other systems), the backup speed is slow."

"I am working in some of the more rural areas of Sweden, and some of the customers here are a little bit wary of cloud technology at the moment. It is not like in Gothenburg or Stockholm, where people rely on it so much more. In the rural areas, companies are saying that we do need to use the cloud, and they are being very wary about their data, especially with GDPR and all that kind of stuff. Having more control and having an option for backing up locally, even if you don't want to use it, would be something very good. The cloud backup is brilliant, but there should be an option to take that cloud backup and save it locally as well. If you lose connection to the internet or you lose access to your data in the cloud, having a backup copy of the latest data on your server is helpful. You need to be able to get access to your customers' files, especially with GDPR, where you need to know where your customers' details are. If they're in the cloud and you've lost access to them, then you'll go into those GDPR regulations. This is somewhere where both Barracuda and Veeam haven't gone as far. As far as I have understood, with Veeam, you can back up your local servers to the cloud but not vice versa. I haven't worked on it much."

"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."

"Their technical support is not very good. You never know what they are doing and what is the issue. Customers need to know what is happening. This is our main concern and the only thing that can be improved in this solution. I would like to have more visibility about what is going on when something happens. I need to know what was done to solve the issue."

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"The installation is cumbersome."

"One area needing improvement is to facilitate Oracle database restores using the GUI on the NetBackup Appliance."

"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."

"I would like the ability to recover a single folder within the backup of a virtual machine."

"Veritas NetBackup Appliance can improve by having a more direct connection to the cloud. It should have the technology to be able to directly communicate with the cloud."

"Improving the interface could enhance user experience."

"We had some problems with the backup of the physical server."

"It's hard to get to the backups. There are too many tabs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Because it is a single package that includes everything, they are worth the money that you need to pay for it. You are paying for the hardware, licensing, the software that runs on it, regular updates, the cloud features included with it along with the replication, and your space allocated in the cloud for replication. It is fairly priced for what you get."

"Low, fixed cost with great savings."

"What I like best about Barracuda Backup is the licensing model."

"Its pricing is very reasonable, but it can be reduced."

"You have two options, which we have. We pay for it bi-monthly. Then, you can purchase the project hours and support annually."

"Normally, there is the hardware on the site. So, essentially, there is a server and storage. They can price it a little lower because the customers are making a little investment upfront. Even though it is trouble-free for the end-users, and once it is set up and running, they don't have to really think about it, there is essentially an initial investment. It is not really pricey. We're actually competitive, but we are in a different market. In Asia, customers are a little more price-sensitive than in the west. It is not really a real issue."

"It is about 6,900 or 7,000 a year. It goes up a little every year. Its price includes live updates, support, antivirus, and cloud storage. If I increase the cloud space, then the price would increase. It has been consistent for us."

"The licensing is charged yearly. It's my understanding that the cost of the solution is somewhere around $7,000 every two years."

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"The price of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is competitive. There are different models of Veritas NetBackup Appliance, such as perpetual licenses and subscriptions. Having the choice is good."

"Overall, Veritas is a good solution; the problem is the cost."

"I cannot say whether our licensing costs are on a monthly or annual basis, as we have a global contract."

"I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"The product is expensive and comes with a yearly license."

"There is a license needed to use Veritas NetBackup Appliance and there are not any additional fees."

"The pricing for the solution's software maintenance and licensing is high."

"The licenses are purchased on appliances with the capacity they require."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Backup?

The solution’s scalability is good because its space is unlimited. We can start in Office365 with one terabyte bit of information and leverage through an enterprise solution of 1000 users.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Backup?

The pricing is very competitive. Licensing is on a yearly basis, and Barracuda even provides replacements after three years if a device reaches end of life, without any extra charges.

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Backup?

The product needs improvement to become better. For example, we attempted to integrate with Postgres SQL server to backup the database alone, which was not supported. For this reason, we required a...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

Customers say that the price for Veritas NetBackup Appliance is high. It is a high price because the maintenance has a large cost, especially if the appliance is hardware rather than a virtual appl...

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What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

I think Veritas NetBackup Appliance can be improved in terms of support. Support for appliances needs to be improved, specifically the quality of support that I receive. The specific areas that nee...

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What is your primary use case for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

My main use case for Veritas NetBackup Appliance is for backup and recovery. I use Veritas NetBackup Appliance for backing up all customer data across Hyper-V, VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, simple file...

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Also Known As

Barracuda Backup

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Overview

Barracuda Intronis Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed to safeguard critical business information. It offers secure and efficient backup and recovery capabilities for physical and virtual environments. With its user-friendly interface, businesses can easily manage and monitor their backups, ensuring data integrity and availability.

The solution supports a wide range of platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Linux, making it suitable for diverse IT environments. Barracuda Intronis Backup utilizes advanced deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage utilization and reduce backup windows.

It also offers flexible recovery options, allowing businesses to restore files, folders, or entire systems quickly and efficiently. The solution ensures data security through encryption and secure transmission protocols, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.

With its robust reporting and alerting features, businesses can proactively monitor backup status and address any issues promptly. Barracuda Intronis Backup provides businesses with peace of mind, knowing that their critical data is protected and easily recoverable in the event of a disaster.

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Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a comprehensive data protection solution that combines hardware and software into a single, integrated platform. It offers scalable storage capacity, high-performance backup and recovery, and advanced deduplication technology. With its intuitive user interface and centralized management, it simplifies data protection operations and reduces administrative overhead.

The appliance supports a wide range of applications, databases, and operating systems, ensuring comprehensive protection for both physical and virtual environments. It also provides seamless integration with cloud storage, enabling organizations to leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud backup.

With its robust security features and built-in resiliency, the Veritas NetBackup Appliance ensures the integrity and availability of critical data, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes.

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