We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup 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."The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."
"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."
"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"This solution is stable."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."
"The usability and interface of the solution are good."
"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 disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."
"The scalability of the solution is limited."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 55th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Datto Cloud Continuity and Catalogic DPX, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect and Commvault Cloud. See our Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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