We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup and Veeam Backup & Replication 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."The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"The backup and replication features are most valuable."
"Sandbox feature is like a power tool for troubleshooting."
"Storage Snapshot is a good feature and very safe."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup & Replication is the ease of use."
"This is easy to use with a simple restore feature."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"I have found one of the most valuable features to be the integrity of the backups."
"The product’s configuration and settings are very easy."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"In terms of what could be improved, when creating a backup job with Veeam, you can create a daily backup, but it doesn't do it within that job. It does not give you the ability to also set the terms for monthly and/or weekly backups. It has to be a separate job. It gets clunky to manage the timeframes where you don't want a daily to run on this day and creating weeklies. And you don't want a daily to run on this day doing monthlies. That is hard to deal with. It would be really nice if you could do it through a single command line or a single interface."
"Its native capability for talking to the public cloud needs improvement. Connecting to a public cloud is a little bit more of a challenge when it comes to Veeam than it is with Rubrik or Commvault. There are still some hoops that you got to jump through in order to send Veeam backups out to public cloud repositories. It is not as simple as it is with other products."
"The product is missing some commonsense features and tools for an enterprise backup recovery product,"
"Additional executive summary reports for the entire infrastructure would be a nice to have."
"Its licensing needs to be improved. Its licensing has become complex since last December. They have changed the way the product is licensed, and there is a lot of confusion. Sometimes, when a new version comes, it seems that it has not been tested enough because I usually find some bugs in it. It could also have more integration with other virtualization products, such as desktop virtualization products and open-source virtualization products."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"They need full cloud integration such that an on-premises backup can be offloaded to the cloud for storage."
"The VMotion feature is not reliable enough to ensure a successful migration operation."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 76th in Backup and Recovery while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup. See our IDERA SQL Safe Backup vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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