We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect 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."The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."
"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."
"For local backups, it has options to back up almost any storage. The back can be either a shared folder or anything you want, it's pretty flexible."
"The licensing model is very good."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."
"The most valuable feature is the extra protection, especially for the backup."
"Since the last version, everything has been improved."
"For my first experience, it is the best software for backups, especially for a five-system backup."
"The product is good in a small environment when looking to a backup on a tape."
"Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"We are happy with Veritas Backup Exec's stability."
"This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"The solution needs to have better stability. I would like to improve the tool’s support through calls."
"I wish Acronis had a feature that would allow me to set an expiry date for customers when I send them Acronis, such as when I create a customer workload or gigabyte."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult."
"The technical support of Acronis Backup could improve. They have the depth of knowledge but the speed of the response could be quicker."
"It would be nice if it could support more types of storage: EMC, HPE, Veeam, etc."
"It could back up more things. I don't think it can back up Box and some of the other third-party ones. Not that we use them that much, but the more they can do, the better it would be. There could also be better integrations with RMM tools."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"There needs to be an integration process of the endpoint devices so that we don't have to redo everything for different products."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"One area that needs improvement is SQL backup. Backup Exec doesn't support higher availability."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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