We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Veritas NetBackup 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."The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"It is easy to configure."
"The recovery part of the product is very good."
"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"I like the tool's speed."
"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."
"It is easy to use, and you can run it with all kinds of client software environments. It works well with the most popular software, file systems, and operating systems. It is very useful to us."
"I like the cross-platform features."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"NetBackup is very easy for end-users."
"This is a product that has been on the market for a while and they have mastered the backup process, especially when backing up to tape, for most environments."
"It is very easy to back up and recover files compared to other products."
"The solution offers the hardware and the software at the same time."
"We were able to witness the benefits of using the solution within weeks of using it."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"Based on my experience, whenever we need support, there are difficulties with communication when trying to resolve the issue."
"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"We could not go into granular details of retrieving backup information."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"It was very complicated, and it required a lot of work in terms of management. We have moved to Rubrik. One of the reasons for getting rid of Veritas NetBackup was the fact that at one point, we had the support staff with 12 to 15 people to manage Veritas NetBackup, whereas, with Rubrik, I'm the only one managing Rubrik. There is one more person who works with me mostly due to the fact that in case I'm not around, someone else knows what to do, but I'm the only one who is a full-time manager of Rubrik. The complexity of Veritas required a large staff to manage it. We had daily issues that had to be looked into and resolved. A lot of these issues revolved around Veritas' handling of VMware, which is why first we moved VMware off Veritas. After we did that, we were also able to reduce our staff count. Their licensing is a disaster. It is extremely complicated. In most cases, Veritas themselves can't understand their own licensing."
"They currently have the Java concept and it should be less intensive and take less load."
"We would like the Java console to be updated."
"Maybe they could add more cloud solutions."
"The pricing is a bit of a concern. If could be lower."
"There may be a learning curve."
"This solution would benefit from a more friendly, web-based interface."
"The user interface could improve, it seems a bit out of date."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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