We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP 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."The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"The most valuable feature of Veritas NetBackup is the protection policies or protection module."
"The troubleshooting is very good."
"Veritas NetBackup is a reliable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy solution."
"We were able to witness the benefits of using the solution within weeks of using it."
"It is important, when we chose a solution, that the customer service/technical support team could help us when we needed it, but the support was good."
"Deduplication is the most valuable feature as it reduces the backup time and provides backup of a single copy of data"
"It's a good product, it does what we want it to do."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"Based on my experience, whenever we need support, there are difficulties with communication when trying to resolve the issue."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"We have to use a Microsoft hypervisor for installation which is expensive."
"NetBackup is expensive and should be cheaper. That is why we are moving on to another solution."
"GUI needs to be more user-friendly."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
"In terms of improvement, it's very difficult to make it work with multiple business units. Its security model is too constricted."
"I would like to have support enabled for cloud backups."
"They need to improve their support. In the beginning, their engineers had trouble understanding the issue we were presenting. It took a lot of conversations for them to start troubleshooting the problem."
"There is room for improvement in the implementation of Power servers."
"The virtual environment, cloud integration, copy data management features need improvement."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 40 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Azure Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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