We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Veritas NetBackup based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Azure Backup slightly nudges out Veritas NetBackup in this comparison. Azure Backup is a more straightforward solution to learn, use, and manage, and provides some impressive next-gen cloud capabilities. Veritas is very complex to learn and manage. Additionally, it is lacking in some basic cloud functionalities, which makes the solution seem a bit dated.
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines."
"It offers seamless integration."
"I like that it's a stable solution and their support is good. I think Microsoft's commercial force is superior."
"The fact that Azure Backup is integrated is one of its biggest advantages."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services."
"Azure Backup is very simple to use and user-friendly."
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"The tool has a lot of features."
"Good graphical user interface. It's easy to create policies and to do installs."
"Disaster recovery primarily involves backup usage. We employ it for both backup and recovery purposes. The backup and recovery processes have been executed multiple times, even restoring data from backups created three to four years ago."
"We can easily expand the ability of the solution."
"The deduplication feature is useful. Deduplication and compression features are what I like about NetBackup."
"This is a complete solution, everything is under one console."
"The most valuable feature is that you don't need any special connectivity - you just need to give your seller name, and then it automatically discovers all your virtual machines, which is a great benefit, especially in a bigger environment."
"The Replication Director, Auto Image Replication, Accelerator, Oracle Intelligent Policy, synthetic and VADP backups are the most valuable features."
"There's a very nice central console for the administration of all of the instances."
"The extensibility onto hybrid environments needs a bit of tweaking for those on-prem."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"Azure Backup could improve the backup data copies because they are not immutable."
"The user interface is a little bit confusing and it could be better."
"The tool's backup should be faster. Azure Backup's support should be faster."
"Azure Backup's licensing model is very challenging because it doesn't give a clear picture."
"The length of time it takes to restore is our main source of frustration. It would be beneficial to shorten the time it takes."
"I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate."
"The solution could improve by having a feature to backup iSeries workloads."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"It's a little bit complex to manage."
"It is a very expensive solution. They should have a different scheme for selling it. They should also make it easy for us to switch from Solaris to Linux. We are having some trouble in migrating our actual catalog from Solaris to Linux."
"The most common problem is the backup failures over the weekend. We have to troubleshoot and sometimes do restores and then we have trouble doing some of the restores."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better way to protect against ransomware attacks and a better way of logging issues where you don't have to enable the verbose logging to capture the problems."
"It would be extremely helpful if the solution offered near-zero recovery time for SQL."
"The SQL Server backup features are not up to date."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker. See our Azure Backup vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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