We performed a comparison between Veritas NetBackup and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"The most valuable feature is the trouble-free operation, as we have not had many problems with it."
"Great deduplication feature."
"The client side deduplication reduces the backup window."
"I like the virtual server backup."
"The solution has been very good over the years at fine-tuning various aspects of the product so that it is continuously made better."
"Includes snapshots and multiple database agents."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"The reporting is very good compared to other tools."
"The policy-based backup feature is very helpful."
"We have good data backup coverage."
"They are a large company with good best practices, and they give good support."
"I think the solution is very intuitive, effective, and easy to use."
"We can add multiple appliances to the product."
"Compared to a homemade installation, this appliance is very stable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."
"The interface should be improved."
"We had some issues with the hardware backup appliance."
"Data restoration from Veritas NetBackup is quite slow. I would also like documentation that I can share with my technical team."
"What needs to be improved in Veritas NetBackup is its interface, e.g. they should make it more user friendly. Scalability for this product could still be improved, particularly its hardware appliance scalability."
"Endpoint backup capability is needed."
"The solution could improve by having a feature to backup iSeries workloads."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
"The biggest additional features needed are more cloud capabilities and security from ransomware."
"The technical support services could be better."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance could improve by having a site recovery feature."
"The only drawback for NetBackup, and of course for Veritas, is that they have stuck to the same environment and to the same UI - User Interface. This needs to be improved in future releases. It needs to be more dynamic."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."
"It is not easy because I have worked a lot on the tool, and in case it gets corrupted at any point, it is not easy to restore the data without losing information is not easy."
"The hybrid model is not that efficient if we want to off-site data; it takes a lot of time to upload the data on a regular basis."
Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series, HPE StoreOnce and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Veritas NetBackup vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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