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Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows [EOL] vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Veeam Agent for Microsoft W...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Veritas NetBackup
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (5th)
 

Featured Reviews

Muhammad Ibtehaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and mange with reasonable pricing
The main feature is a specific file type. If we want some PDF files just to back up, the prefix is very easy, and we do everything in Veeam backup. It's straightforward to set up. It's stable. The solution is easy to use. You can centrally manage it. It's potentially free to use.
Storemgr67 - PeerSpot reviewer
Covers a large spectrum of products and operating systems and part of a multi-layer strategy for data protection
We use it like any other backup solution for resource restoration when needed and for populating systems in environments with data. We use NetBackup's data management strategies for multi-target backups and retentions. That's the short answer. The full explanation is quite involved. It would require describing our environment, our workflows, and how we use policies and vaulting policies to move data around. But to keep it brief, NetBackup simplifies managing data across multiple targets with various retention periods. NetBackup is part of a multi-layer strategy. It's one of the many tools we use, to ensure we don't rely on a single product. So, the product has positively impacted our protection strategy. Moreover, we're satisfied with its performance when it comes to the deduplication function.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is a stable solution."
"Veeam helps to create a stable environment with virtual servers."
"Application awareness is very good and the speed of this solution is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Veeam is very useful for the Hyper-V environment."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows are the backups, ease of use, and report manager."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to navigate inside a backup point to look for a specific folder or data you want to recover."
"This is a reliable system that supports Veeam backup and recovery for Windows."
"Deduplication is quite efficient. It is not a complex product. It is quite simple."
"I am comfortable with using this product."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"Veritas NetBackup is a reliable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy solution."
"The features are good."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't need any special connectivity - you just need to give your seller name, and then it automatically discovers all your virtual machines, which is a great benefit, especially in a bigger environment."
"It supports multiple, heterogeneous platforms."
"Ease of installing, configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting."
 

Cons

"The solution could use some updates to minor details omitted from current reporting."
"If they could let you can do replication to physical servers - a backup from physical servers and a replication to physical servers - that will be better."
"The backups can go slow."
"Some customers have Oracle databases and Veeam does support back up of Oracle databases."
"Updating and configuration can sometimes be a little bit of a hassel, but once you know the product better it is easy to use."
"There should be an option to use the solution for physical machines."
"There really are no cons. The product simply has to maintain development to keep up with changes in the operating system."
"I can't think of anything that may be missing."
"They need to improve their support. In the beginning, their engineers had trouble understanding the issue we were presenting. It took a lot of conversations for them to start troubleshooting the problem."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
"The product needs to improve its GUI. It needs to make use of a web interface."
"Like the other enterprise solutions, Veritas NetBackup isn't easy to implement. It's a little bit hard compared to other solutions like Data Protector for HPE. You have to struggle to learn a lot of features that Veritas NetBackup offers to customers."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better way to protect against ransomware attacks and a better way of logging issues where you don't have to enable the verbose logging to capture the problems."
"The product must enable data migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"The solution could have a more clear dashboard about the license and the operation status."
"It's not a user-friendly solution. It's a little bit complicated. The UI is not very friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have a license package."
"Pricing is based on license packaging and duration. Longer term licenses are less per year and license packages also offer a discount."
"The licensing fees are billed on a yearly basis, and the fees are much lower than what I pay for NetBackup."
"The solution is free of cost for end users but for enterprise use, a license per user is required."
"We have a cloud provider agreement with Veeam. We are also paying for the agent."
"We are on an annual license to use Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. There are not any additional fees to use the solution."
"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, and pricing can be a disadvantage or a weakness for this solution."
"The solution is inexpensive, more so than other products."
"Veritas NetBackup's pricing is a bit steep when compared to other tools. It is very costly, but service-wise and overall, the Veritas NetBackup is a good product."
"It was on a yearly basis. During the annual review, when we asked them about our licensing, they couldn't explain it. For example, we had reduced by a factor of 40%, but our license only dropped by 5%. We would then ask Veritas people if we've reduced this much and shut down these servers, why has our license changed so less? They were never able to give us a straight answer. They weren't able to say, "Well, you're using this, and this is more expensive." In many cases, as we reduced our capacity and what we were using with Veritas NetBackup, our licensing actually went up, and they were often unable to explain why."
"The price is fair."
"The solution is expensive."
"We are happy with the pricing that we have, but it's expensive."
"In terms of cost, it's not very good."
"Its price is quite reasonable. The cost depends on the depreciation and the volume. It also depends on the infrastructure. If your infrastructure increases, you would need some more licenses."
"A better price would make this product more competitive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Educational Organization
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?
The pricing is very good compared to Micro Focus. It is very affordable.
What needs improvement with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows?
We don't have any issues with the solution. We do not need any other features. The integration with MS Storage and Dell Media needs to be simplified. Micro Focus may be better in this area as it of...
What is the best next generation backup tool?
Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...
What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup?
The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup?
The product is cost-effective, and I would rate its pricing as an eight out of ten. The pricing model is based on the amount of data transferred, making it manageable for us.
 

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Sample Customers

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