We performed a comparison between Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment, features, service and support, and ROI. In terms of pricing, Rubrik users thought the solution was expensive yet worth the price, while Veeam Backup & Replication users gave its pricing mixed reviews.
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"In the event of any issues or questions, the support is top-notch. We rarely need to use support, but when they are needed, they are always quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"The system is able to determine when it is the best time to do backups. This is SLA-driven, and if it is not possible to maintain this SLA, the system will tell you too."
"Rubrik is stable and easy to use."
"The live mounting and compatibility of different operating systems is great."
"CloudOut, because only blocks are pushed after compression and deduplication, not raw sizing."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"The user interface (UI) is great. It is very lightweight and intuitive."
"The backup and replication features of this solution are most valuable."
"The solution does a good job with VM backups."
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"We have evaluated other solutions but Veeam is the best for virtualization."
"Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media."
"I enjoy the ability to quickly search for VMs through the Veeam console."
"I think the interface is straightforward"
"It serves its intended purpose and it works well."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"Pricing is something that needs to be considered for improvement."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"I would like a way to set monthly backups on a certain date and time."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"Its cost is high."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"Pricing can be improved."
"When you want to restore files, you first need to restore the machine, and then you have to mount it, and then restore the files."
"The orchestration feature can be improved. They can improve the virtual machine orchestration to make it similar to VMware. They can also provide an option to automate the backup and recovery and schedule a backup."
"The recovery and integration features of Veeam Backup Replication could improve. For example, all VM integration could improve, such as with Hyper-V and VMware."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"I would like to see better features for exporting to cloud-based repositories."
"Some of the best practice documentation could be improved."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Rubrik is most compared with Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup, Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Rubrik vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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I would choose Untrends all day long as it provides fully automated DR testing so when you need to recover from an incident you select the most recent validated copy in minutes.
The appliances (Physical, or Virtual where you have the storage and compute already) index blocks locally so there is less to pull back down from the cloud reducing data repatriation costs and they are the only single vendor solution that is fully integrated and 100% compatible with single-pane management for backup, DR/BC (replication and archiving), for M365, Google Workspace, AWS/Azure Workloads, DTC for home workers.