We performed a comparison between Microsoft DPM 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."This solution helps us to manage all of the operations across servers and different workstations."
"The user interface is very good. The reporting and monitoring features are also good."
"The automated procedure is quite good for us, as it is able to capture all of the information that we require."
"It is almost perfect for Microsoft products. It is not a very powerful tool, but it is okay for small sites and small businesses with Microsoft products. It is easy to use for backup and restore. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers such as Exchange and SharePoint servers."
"Its capability to give a BMR for all the workstations that I want to connect to."
"I could back up all the stuff we had, even the VMs we have for Hyper V."
"Microsoft DPM is scalable."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"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 product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"To evaluate the solution's abilities and its performance under demanding conditions, it is recommended to carry out a stress test."
"We can't take a snapshot and take it outside, which is a problem."
"Management reporting could be improved."
"There is a very poor online user community in terms of people blogging about their experiences with DPM."
"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with open source and competitor products. In the next release, I would like to see some data governance frameworks. It should have support features for data integration and data replication like Veeam. Right now, we are also using Veeam for certain scenarios."
"It needs portability for other vendors. It is good for backing up Microsoft servers, but it doesn't support third-party solutions such as Oracle Database. It depends on Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy, especially for Hyper-V, which has a lot of problems. They should enhance the Volume Shadow Copy functionality. Its reporting should also be better. Reporting is too weak in DPM."
"Additional Hyper-V knowledge would be great."
"The user friendliness could be improved."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
Microsoft DPM is ranked 27th in Backup and Recovery with 17 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Microsoft DPM is rated 7.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft DPM writes "Good for backing up, but the 2019 version lags". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Microsoft DPM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure Backup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Commvault Cloud and Veeam Data Platform, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Azure Backup. See our Microsoft DPM vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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