We performed a comparison between Oracle Data Guard and Veritas NetBackup 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."Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."
"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."
"The solution can scale as needed."
"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."
"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."
"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."
"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."
"Our customers who have faced ransomware attacks were able to recover their data in less than one day without any stress. Veritas is ransomware resilient and because of its implementation, it is not dependent on the operating system to work."
"Backup and recovery software with great stability, and can support large-scale environments."
"The most valuable feature is the trouble-free operation, as we have not had many problems with it."
"This is a product that has been on the market for a while and they have mastered the backup process, especially when backing up to tape, for most environments."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"I like NetBackup's accelerator feature. You can take a full backup with incremental speed and integrate it with block tracking."
"Veritas NetBackup is a scalable solution."
"NetBackup is highly stable. We have more than 1,800 policies that run every day."
"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"The deployment cost is expensive."
"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."
"Oracle Data Guard is stable, but you need to keep monitoring the system all the time. You need to keep monitoring the archives."
"Oracle could be improved by the ability to manage it on the cloud. This on-premises version is secure and reliable, but I'm sure that they will soon provide a cloud solution that will be even better. In one to two years, we will probably move to the cloud—we have already moved to the cloud with Microsoft Exchange, but our databases are still on-premises. I would prefer managing a cloud version of Oracle."
"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."
"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
"Maybe they could add more cloud solutions."
"The biggest problem with NetBackup is licensing."
"We are facing a challenge regarding the support for Docker and Kubernetes features. We hope for the possibility of directly backing up Kubernetes and Docker images without the necessity of taking full virtual machine backups."
"The reporting of the backups could be better."
"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."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"The ability to use different disk appliance brands as Pure Disk (not OST), such as EMC Data Domain ."
Oracle Data Guard is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Carbonite Server, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup. See our Oracle Data Guard vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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