We performed a comparison between Unitrends 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."They have great support."
"It is an easy system to use. The support, if needed, is always willing to help."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"It is a good backup tool."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"The product makes it easy to restore data."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"Follow up for the DRaaS service setup. I'm still waiting to schedule a DRaaS test after upgrading several months ago."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."
"No appliance update notifications."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"The price of this solution is very high."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
Unitrends is ranked 45th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Unitrends is rated 7.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Unitrends vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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