We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect 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."by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"The solution can back up every kind of workload in the environment."
"Space efficient data reduction, using progressive incremental forever in combination with deduplication and compression."
"It covers all the different operating systems. If you need backup, it can pretty much do everything."
"The solution is not complex, it's very easy to configure agents or VM backup and restore. Upgrades from one version to another are very fast and the product is very stable."
"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."
"All other products contain the same features, but when I'm backing up an IBM Power server I feel more comfortable with IBM Spectrum Protect because it's the same vendor."
"Because of the flexible parameters, everything can be fine-tuned to the customers’ needs in their environment."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"Ease of use. That has got to be the one thing that I routinely hear from clients and customers, that it's a little bit more difficult than it should be. What I'm finding is that IBM has heard that and they're responding with updated interfaces and things like that."
"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."
"It's difficult in terms of the configuration at set up. In our case, it required another admin, one person dedicated to the backup."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"RTO is a huge gap for us. If we had a disaster scenario and had to recover a bunch of stuff from tape, the RTO would be too long for us."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"Stability is very good now. It used to be rocky years ago."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"It doesn't support the AIX platform."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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