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Veritas NetBackup pros and cons

Vendor: Veritas
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Veritas NetBackup offers valuable features like VMware VADP backups, support for data domains, and CloudCatalyst.
It provides excellent storage efficiency through effective compression and deduplication.
Veritas NetBackup is appreciated for its stability and trouble-free operation.
It includes versatile backup options suitable for physical machines and cloud environments.
Veritas NetBackup is scalable, supports multiple heterogeneous platforms, and covers a wide variety of backup use cases.

CONS

It is very expensive, causing organizations to look for cost-saving alternatives.
Licensing is complicated and costly.
Support and technical assistance need improvement and are often slow to respond.
Integration with other software and cloud services needs enhancement.
Data restoration and backup processes are slow and require better performance and scalability.
 

Veritas NetBackup Pros review quotes

NM
May 29, 2023
What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available.
reviewer737616 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 18, 2021
We are quite satisfied with the performance and reliability of the NetBackup product. When it comes to specific features, the most valuable is the Instant Recovery feature, which we call "short-term IR". Instant Recovery allows users to spin up backup images and bring back any VM instantly.
JB
Nov 19, 2021
If you are running on a legacy tape environment NetBackup is best.
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N'GUESSAN E R - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 25, 2023
The most valuable feature is replication because, using NetBackup replication, we can have disaster recovery of the data we have.
HB
Oct 11, 2023
We can easily expand the ability of the solution.
JT
Oct 23, 2023
We were able to witness the benefits of using the solution within weeks of using it.
reviewer1519764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2021
It has been around for so long, and it is very in-depth. It has a solution for everything that you can cover.
MB
Sep 29, 2021
Our customers who have faced ransomware attacks were able to recover their data in less than one day without any stress. Veritas is ransomware resilient and because of its implementation, it is not dependent on the operating system to work.
AsiyeYigit - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 29, 2023
Veritas NetBackup is very user-friendly and has some good quick recovery features.
reviewer1477875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 27, 2021
The most valuable feature is flexibility.
 

Veritas NetBackup Cons review quotes

NM
May 29, 2023
NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly.
reviewer737616 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 18, 2021
Veritas NetBackup has been in the backup and recovery market for quite a long time, but somehow, from my own observations and from feedback from end users, its user interface is lagging behind other comparable solutions such as Veeam.
JB
Nov 19, 2021
The flip side about NetBackup is that it is not policy-based.
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N'GUESSAN E R - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 25, 2023
There is a big change in Veritas. In the past, we could easily change servers or appliances and continue working by restoring the catalog. We could change servers from Linux to Linux or Linux to Solaris and perform catalog restores to continue working. But with the new version, we are forced to engage Veritas' professional services, which is too expensive.
HB
Oct 11, 2023
There may be a learning curve.
JT
Oct 23, 2023
The reporting of the backups could be better.
reviewer1519764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2021
It was very complicated, and it required a lot of work in terms of management. We have moved to Rubrik. One of the reasons for getting rid of Veritas NetBackup was the fact that at one point, we had the support staff with 12 to 15 people to manage Veritas NetBackup, whereas, with Rubrik, I'm the only one managing Rubrik. There is one more person who works with me mostly due to the fact that in case I'm not around, someone else knows what to do, but I'm the only one who is a full-time manager of Rubrik. The complexity of Veritas required a large staff to manage it. We had daily issues that had to be looked into and resolved. A lot of these issues revolved around Veritas' handling of VMware, which is why first we moved VMware off Veritas. After we did that, we were also able to reduce our staff count. Their licensing is a disaster. It is extremely complicated. In most cases, Veritas themselves can't understand their own licensing.
MB
Sep 29, 2021
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.
AsiyeYigit - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 29, 2023
The solution's technical support process should be improved.
reviewer1477875 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 27, 2021
In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process.