We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Guard and Veritas NetBackup 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."Backup and application continuity are most valuable."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."
"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any bugs, glitches, or crashes. We find it to be quite reliable."
"You can see how the logs are applied, check the apply time, and how far behind the standby is at any given time."
"Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."
"The solution has been stable so far."
"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."
"Great deduplication feature."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"I think the support is fine. We haven't had issues with it."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"The troubleshooting is very good."
"Best feature is its three-tier backup."
"The feature that is most useful for us is that it backs up every application that we own."
"Veritas NetBackup has significantly streamlined our backup and recovery processes by providing a single pane of view across various environments."
"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."
"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."
"The product could improve its pricing."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."
"The IP implementation and maintenance are a little bit hard to manage across Oracle solutions, including Oracle Data Guard."
"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"The implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."
"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."
"I do not really like NetBackup as it is coming from a mix of other software packages."
"The cost is expensive."
"The most common problem is the backup failures over the weekend. We have to troubleshoot and sometimes do restores and then we have trouble doing some of the restores."
"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
"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."
"Veritas NetBackup has some limitations and it would be a benefit if we had better documentation."
"It gets a lot of new features, but improvements in basic functionality are often sacrificed for a shiny new bullet point to put on sales presentations."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
Oracle Data Guard is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Carbonite Server, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Oracle Data Guard vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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