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Veritas Backup Exec pros and cons

Vendor: Veritas

3.9 out of 5

73 reviews
79% willing to recommend

4,691 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Veritas Backup Exec is highly compatible with various tape libraries and supports disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries. It offers flexibility in both physical and cloud environments, catering well to small and medium-sized businesses. Its backup capabilities are robust, providing fast and reliable data protection. The initial setup is straightforward with broad integration capabilities. However, it lacks a web console, disaster recovery, and improved SaaS integration, and pricing is high.

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PROS

Veritas Backup Exec is compatible with various tape libraries and offers features such as open file handling, SQL and EM agents.

It provides reliable and fast data backups and restores with options for both physical and cloud environments.

Veritas Backup Exec is scalable, supports virtual infrastructure recoveries, and allows file-level restoration.

The initial setup of Veritas Backup Exec is straightforward and can typically be completed quickly with minimal personnel.

Veritas Backup Exec integrates efficiently with Microsoft Exchange for retrieving backups directly from email boxes.

CONS

There is a need for improved integration with SaaS applications like Office 365.

The pricing is considered to be high.

The feature to direct backups directly to the cloud is missing.

SQL backup does not support higher availability.

It does not support the AIX platform.

Veritas Backup Exec Pros review quotes

reviewer1441236

IT Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 4, 2020

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.

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AN

Chief Technology Officer at EITBS Ltd

Aug 22, 2022

Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go.

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IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Jul 29, 2019

The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal.

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MG

Senior Network Administrator at MapnaBE

Jun 14, 2020

Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries.

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System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 29, 2019

The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow.

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KO

Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 11-50 employees

Feb 19, 2021

This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it.

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Lead Technical Specialist at a tech services company

Jun 30, 2017

For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application.

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CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 21, 2022

Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products.

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ZH

Manager, Information Technology Security at Nesma

Apr 4, 2024

When something goes down, and we need to restore data, the most used case is being able to restore it. Veritas Backup Exec allows you to restore down to the file level.

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MA

System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets

Mar 12, 2019

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.

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IT Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 4, 2020

Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks.

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AN

Chief Technology Officer at EITBS Ltd

Aug 22, 2022

I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great.

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IT Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Jul 29, 2019

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.

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MG

Senior Network Administrator at MapnaBE

Jun 14, 2020

A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution.

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System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 29, 2019

In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them.

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KO

Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 11-50 employees

Feb 19, 2021

The price of this solution is very high.

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Lead Technical Specialist at a tech services company

Jun 30, 2017

It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement.

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CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 21, 2022

The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight.

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ZH

Manager, Information Technology Security at Nesma

Apr 4, 2024

Veritas can improve the user interface and the information displayed.

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MA

System Administrator at Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets

Mar 12, 2019

Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process.

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