We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas Backup Exec 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."For local backups, it has options to back up almost any storage. The back can be either a shared folder or anything you want, it's pretty flexible."
"One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface."
"The best thing about it is that we can back up pretty much everything we want to. We don't have to have multiple solutions. It can back up any physical or virtual server, including servers in Azure. It can back up SharePoint, OneDrive, and G Suite. Everything we need to back up can be backed up, and that's why we like it."
"In our recent experiences, Acronis Cyber Protect proved most valuable during instances of colleagues facing migration challenges due to ransomware impacts. In these situations, where servers and backups were affected, having a backup stored in external drives or other devices within our data centers posed risks. To address this vulnerability, we decided to shift to a cloud backup solution."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you can archive backups quite easily and minimize the amount of space you're using."
"For me, the tool proved most valuable in scenarios where it offered easy setup, fast backups, and recognition of SQL logs on virtual machines."
"The Acronis panel is user friendly and tracking backups across a number of different devices is great. Acronis provides prompts and reminders to users if certain files are not backed up."
"The ability to clone backups."
"The solution is good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"It is a good backup tool."
"It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easy for restoring data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works. I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version."
"I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"I needed tech support to straighten out an issue with cloud backup. I have troubleshooting to do with failed backups."
"The dashboards for digital operations can be improved."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."
"The solution could be better if some of the features were more in-depth."
"If there was a wizard that would lead you down a road, when creating a backup, that would probably be better than having to go online or call somebody to actually do a backup. It's not intuitive..."
"The problems that we face are often related to the customer's network, although sometimes there are problems with the software, such as an error in the configuration."
"No technical support and minimal documentation."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"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."
"If you keep it for too long and the catalog gets really big, the application tends to move slowly."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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