We performed a comparison between Azure Backup 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."I like that it's a simple system."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services."
"With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"It's very simple to configure which is very useful. It's not complex to configure it."
"With Azure Backup, you can readily make your environment if your setup somehow fails on the cloud or on-premises."
"The daily backups have become easier since we no longer need to handle large backups. The use of Azure Backup as a service has proven reliable and simplified our daily operations. Previously, we relied on LTO backups for data retention, but after migrating to the cloud and adopting Azure Backup, the delivery process has become smoother."
"The storage backup is very efficient."
"It's easy to deploy."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"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."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine. But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. There is no application backup."
"I can’t use the solution to restore another native cloud solution. Azure must add this new feature."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"The extensibility onto hybrid environments needs a bit of tweaking for those on-prem."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"The support for Office365 backup is atrocious and is something that has to be improved."
"We would like to see some kind of notification given to the user that a file was not synchronized well or what may have happened."
"In Avamar, the file-based restores are very quick and fast, whereas, in Azure Backup, VM restore is super easy, but if I have to do a file or a folder restore, I have to mount the entire VM image. I have to wait for some time for it to be mounted, and then I have to go inside and then check the file and copy it somewhere. It's a bit of a manual process, whereas in Avamar, you can directly select a file and folder, and it'll recover with whatever permissions you want."
"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 reports could be made in an easier way."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Rubrik. See our Azure Backup vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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