We performed a comparison between Dell Avamar 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."The product has a proven track record of good backups without much of a failure ratio. It also has a good backup in terms of the compression ratio."
"The stability is okay."
"I think the brand is very good. Support is also very nice for end users and integration with EMC products for businesses."
"We are talking about a complete end-to-end solution which comes with its own hardware storage to back up the data on tape-less."
"The fast backup and recovery and the Full Backup features are valuable."
"It's stable and offers good performance."
"Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"The deduplication feature is the best aspect of the solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications and platforms."
"The solution could be a bit easier to use in the sense that they need to make it simpler to backup products and restore items."
"More integration would be helpful, as well as the addition of more applications."
"The solution is not very strong on the Cloud. They should work out how they can use this as a backup as a service."
"It was challenging to back up our Exchange database, which is one of the reasons we did not continue using this solution."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It's not as good as it could be."
"The client caches and deduplication system have a few problems."
"When you get down to doing certain things, such as somebody wants a particular file restored, the process by which you do that is stupid. You kind of have to know exactly where to look for in order to find it. Even on older backup products that I've used, I didn't have that kind of problem. If we were looking for a file with a particular kind of a name, the solution would find that file anywhere irrespective of where it resides within the backup system. So, we didn't have to know the name of the specific server, the specific timeframe, almost all the characters of the file name, and all kinds of data in order to find a file. In Avamar, we got to know these details. We've gone around and around with them on that, and their attitude seems to be that it is working just fine. There is nothing for them to improve. The organizational system of other products that I'm working with, such as Zerto and Cohesity, seems to be centered around the tasks that you would most commonly do and want to do, as opposed to we've laid it out in a really neat technical hierarchy."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
Dell Avamar is ranked 12th in Backup and Recovery with 81 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Dell Avamar is rated 7.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell Avamar writes "Stable, integrates well with other solutions, and has a good price, but its UI needs a refresh". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Dell Avamar is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell NetWorker, Dell PowerProtect DP (IDPA) and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Dell Avamar vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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