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."Centralization is Avamar's biggest advantage. It moves data to a central location from various geographical locations."
"I found the most valuable features of Dell Avamar are the user-friendly interface and ease to use. Our clients have administrated this software and there is no additional training required."
"I have found the product to be scalable."
"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."
"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 setup is very easy."
"The performance of Dell EMC Avamar is good."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"It is a good backup tool."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"The bare-metal restores could be improved."
"It would be helpful if there was cloud support."
"The solution used to freeze sometimes while taking a snapshot backup."
"The interface could be more helpful for people."
"Setting up Avamar wasn't so easy, and we had a partner doing the installation for us. Though it was hard at first, it's getting better. The main difficulty was finding plugins for Oracle Database. It took some time to open a ticket with Dell, but everything was fine after that."
"There also needs to be single sign-on support."
"Dell hasn't done a good job at handling these upgrades, or the way EMC used to handle them."
"Some integrations are not in place, such as the email alerts, which are not compatible with Office 365 SMTP gateway."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"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."
"Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"At the moment, we have a very complex environment. It would take some time to deploy an environment like ours from scratch."
"There's one common issue with tape backups: the tape might have some space left, but Backup Exec says it's not writable and needs replacement. We've encountered this with multiple clients, so it doesn't seem environment-specific. It's likely related to the software. We usually just format the tape and use it again without much investigation."
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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