Veritas Backup Exec Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Network Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 12, 2012

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 is feature rich tool which heavily depends on agents

What is most valuable?

Protection plans can now be created by performing fewer steps, as compared to version 2010.Software deployment is straight forward. The homepage has been redesigned, which provides detailed statistics about backup operations, media, and job statuses.Remote agent installation is also simple; when you go to the Backup and Restore options it displays all the systems that have agents running.Backups can be restored or converted into virtual machines running in VMware or Hyper-V environments.Multiple systems can be placed in groups to share the backup strategies

What needs improvement?

Most features work when agents are installed on servers, but you have to pay extra for most of them. The product is totally redesigned and requires some patches and updates to become fully compatible with different types of environments.

What other advice do I have?

Symantec Backup Exec 2012 is a feature rich tool for data protection and recovery. It can protect both physical and virtual environments to avoid disasters and reduces down time.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user2652Project Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

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Oct 26, 2014

I have been managing databases these days. Could you please advise if you use Symantec Backup Exec 2012 for backing up oracle or mysql databases as well?