We performed a comparison between BackupAssist 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 features of BackupAssist are ease of use, configure is simple, and more importantly, ease of recovery. If you needed to do a complete system recovery or another recovery it is straightforward."
"I get my reports. It is generally very reliable. Unless there is a major change, it doesn't stop backing up. I've got my server room set up with everything connected to the same power, and I never have power issues or failures of backups because a sub-site has gone off."
"We can configure the notifications themselves so that the right people get the notifications. This is very helpful. It allows key stakeholders to know if backups have happened and to remind each other to check the backups if something is not right."
"I have found that the backups are usually very successful."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions."
"For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application."
"One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The solution needs a dashboard or some form of central control from which you can manage all backups."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
"The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"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's support services could be faster."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"There are some issues with the Backup Exec Library and the random picking of tapes."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
BackupAssist is ranked 28th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. BackupAssist is rated 8.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BackupAssist writes "Provides ransomware protection, does good reporting, and is close to perfect for our use case". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our BackupAssist vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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