We performed a comparison between Unitrends 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."I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"The ability to backup both physical and virtual machines, along with having an appliance store the backups locally instead of on a file server, NAS, or SAN."
"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."
"The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"The solution is stable."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"It is a scalable product."
"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"I would like to see this solution improve on faster restoration. Currently, it takes a long time to restore my data."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster."
"There is no training provided, and their technicians are unaware of the features available."
"Initial setup is a bit complex and needs some expertise for troubleshooting when something goes wrong."
Unitrends is ranked 44th in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Unitrends is rated 7.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Arcserve UDP, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our Unitrends vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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