Veritas Backup Exec Review

Great backup solution if you need support.

Valuable Features:

I use this on a few of my servers. This does a great job with scheduling full backups and incremental backups. Support is good due to it being an enterprise product.

Room for Improvement:

Sometimes permissions and deploying the agents can be tricky. I found that running as a local admin works better than domain admin. Some tape drives it has issues with, and doesn't like certain tape manufacturers.

Other Advice:

I have mostly moved away from this to Amanda backup, due to it being open source (free!!). A few years ago, this would be all that I trust to do backups, but now it is no longer needed.
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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author avatarit_user3876 (Database Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees)
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Amanda is suitable for all platforms including Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux. Whereas symantec backup exec does not support Mac operting system. Amanda also has some excellent features that are not available in backup exec like compression and remote access. Do you think that in the future, symantic can take place of Amanda?

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author avatarit_user2652 (Project Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees)
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Can we use Symantec Backup for mysql hot backup? What are the other utilities that can be used for mysql online backup?

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Highlights
This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V.
The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers.
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.
The interface, dashboard, and pricing are all perfect.
The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface.
The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow.
I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one.
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