We performed a comparison between Azure Backup 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."With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"This solution is easy to configure and restore. It is a Microsoft product so is easily compatible with other solutions."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is the native backup capabilities."
"It's easy to deploy."
"The solution helped us use R2 RBO to back up frequently."
"I like the product's restoration cases."
"It's very simple to configure which is very useful. It's not complex to configure it."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"The ease-of-use in general is great."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"Good open file option feature, SQL agent, and EM agent."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"In Avamar, the file-based restores are very quick and fast, whereas, in Azure Backup, VM restore is super easy, but if I have to do a file or a folder restore, I have to mount the entire VM image. I have to wait for some time for it to be mounted, and then I have to go inside and then check the file and copy it somewhere. It's a bit of a manual process, whereas in Avamar, you can directly select a file and folder, and it'll recover with whatever permissions you want."
"The product could improve its performance."
"The user interface is a little bit confusing and it could be better."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"It doesn't have the option to have a backup from the database. It has backup for the files, folders, and backup only the whole virtual machine. But if I need to do a backup from the Oracle database, from an Exchange server or from SharePoint, this ability isn't there. There is no application backup."
"They need to improve the frequency of the backup. You can only backup one to three times a day. It would be better to back up continuously throughout the day."
"The compression ratio of the backup data should be improved."
"I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate."
"The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software."
"The solution lacked local support, which became an issue for us and our customers. They needed to have more presence on the ground."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"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."
"Better integration with non-Microsoft products would be an improvement."
Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Microsoft DPM. See our Azure Backup vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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