We performed a comparison between Unitrends 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."It is fairly stable."
"The simple and fast restore routine."
"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"VM backup is much faster and more reliable, as I can test my backups with Data Copy Access jobs."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"They have great support."
"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"The ability to diversify jobs within the same server helps break down a large chunk of data into more manageable and concentrated chunks."
"Its most valuable features are flexibility and reliability."
"The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions."
"The backup and restore functions are very valuable aspects of the product."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"This is a complete solution, everything is under one console."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"Veritas NetBackup is very user-friendly and has some good quick recovery features."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"Probably the biggest issue I've had is actually paying for the unit, and part of that problem is that they use a third party for the billing."
"No appliance update notifications."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"The biggest additional features needed are more cloud capabilities and security from ransomware."
"The only pain point we have with this solution is the cost. It's very expensive. In fact, it's so expensive we are looking for other platforms. We want to move away from it in order to save our organization costs."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"The restoration method and the compression ratio need improvement."
"I do not really like NetBackup as it is coming from a mix of other software packages."
"The solution could improve by having a feature to backup iSeries workloads."
"Updates were not always consistent."
"The pricing could be improved, and the interface could be more intuitive."
Unitrends is ranked 44th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Unitrends is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Unitrends vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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