We performed a comparison between Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, and Veritas Backup Exec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."Not having to specify a time to run a backup with a fixed schedule is something that's really beneficial. In the past we had to schedule and try to manually stagger things over the window, to back up everything. Because Rubrik is SLA-based, you say, "Well, I need it to fit in this window here," and it just backs it up when it's most convenient for the Brik and for the third-party system. It looks at the CPU usage and says, "Okay, it's not as busy now. I know I've got time to take the backup." That's a real advantage."
"The live mount reduces complexity."
"The solution is stable."
"Instant recovery because it takes about 10 seconds to restore the VM from backup to production"
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"Live Mount is where we do the majority of our big recoveries, unless it is a file recovery. A file recovery takes a few minutes to restore to where the file in the event a file was accidentally deleted by a user, etc. There has been at least a 90 percent reduction in recovery time based on our previous solution, from the need to recover something to when it's actually recovered went from hours to minutes."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"Initially setting up the product is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup Replication is application awareness. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly and it has been working very well."
"The technical support is excellent. It's one of the best I've met so far."
"The replication is the most valuable feature for us."
"The direct SAN backup feature perfectly integrates with our 3PAR storage infrastructure."
"I'm pleased with the ability to search for documents; it's very useful."
"The most valuable feature is adaptability, where it automatically adapts to the environment that it's being installed on."
"Replication is most valuable."
"The disk-to-disk paid backup feature is quite good, and file locking is a very important feature."
"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."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The product allows for versatile storage options, enabling users to store data on disk storage, NAS storage, or tape libraries."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"It is a good overall suite of products."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable."
"The dashboard and user interface could be improved to make them more user-friendly."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"I would like for unmanaged backups to be able to be saved in a separate policy."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"It is not Windows Cluster-Aware at the moment or Exchange DAG-Aware. If they add support for these particular use cases, it would be even better."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"They need to find a solution for SMBs. It is currently only suitable for enterprises or big customers. They need to find a solution that suits SMBs."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"We're using both Backup and Replication, Veeam Cloud Connect, and Veeam Office 365. What I am missing is a good graphical user interface between these three products."
"Its licensing needs to be improved. Its licensing has become complex since last December. They have changed the way the product is licensed, and there is a lot of confusion. Sometimes, when a new version comes, it seems that it has not been tested enough because I usually find some bugs in it. It could also have more integration with other virtualization products, such as desktop virtualization products and open-source virtualization products."
"They need a better solution for backend storage."
"I would prefer it if the backup console did not require use of a specified program but rather that it could be opened from any website."
"There's a situation where VMs run on different locks. It's running on the VM while having a relationship with nearby solutions running on the same server and storage. This creates a bottleneck that needs to be eliminated."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups or snapshots. That's a nice functionality that Veeam doesn't have."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"More stable environment in a WAN infrastructure."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The reports could be made in an easier way."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The price of this solution is very high."
