We performed a comparison between Barracuda Intronis Backup and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is unlimited data storage on the cloud. Even if the employee has left the company for a few years, the backup will still be maintained."
"The backup feature is most valuable. That's why we took it."
"The product is easy to install and use while doing what it is expected to do."
"Barracuda's support is probably one of the best things about them, even with all their solutions. With any problem that we have, or even questions, we get the assistance that we need. The turnaround is pretty quick."
"The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the product."
"I have found the product's LiveBoot feature to be most valuable."
"Most important is its ease of use. You plug it in, follow the steps, and you have your backup file."
"The performance is good and the interface is user-friendly."
"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 is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"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 product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"The solution needs fine-grained backup capabilities to service individual users. But this is a minor issue considering all that the product does."
"It would be nice to have some reports generated on the usage, but it is not essential."
"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."
"Barracuda Backup could use some more integration."
"Its speed can be a bit improved, and of course, its pricing can go a lot cheaper."
"I am working in some of the more rural areas of Sweden, and some of the customers here are a little bit wary of cloud technology at the moment. It is not like in Gothenburg or Stockholm, where people rely on it so much more. In the rural areas, companies are saying that we do need to use the cloud, and they are being very wary about their data, especially with GDPR and all that kind of stuff. Having more control and having an option for backing up locally, even if you don't want to use it, would be something very good. The cloud backup is brilliant, but there should be an option to take that cloud backup and save it locally as well. If you lose connection to the internet or you lose access to your data in the cloud, having a backup copy of the latest data on your server is helpful. You need to be able to get access to your customers' files, especially with GDPR, where you need to know where your customers' details are. If they're in the cloud and you've lost access to them, then you'll go into those GDPR regulations. This is somewhere where both Barracuda and Veeam haven't gone as far. As far as I have understood, with Veeam, you can back up your local servers to the cloud but not vice versa. I haven't worked on it much."
"Their technical support is not very good. You never know what they are doing and what is the issue. Customers need to know what is happening. This is our main concern and the only thing that can be improved in this solution. I would like to have more visibility about what is going on when something happens. I need to know what was done to solve the issue."
"I would like to see a way to increase space."
"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."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"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."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect 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 Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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