We performed a comparison between BackupAssist 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."I get my reports. It is generally very reliable. Unless there is a major change, it doesn't stop backing up. I've got my server room set up with everything connected to the same power, and I never have power issues or failures of backups because a sub-site has gone off."
"I have found that the backups are usually very successful."
"The most valuable features of BackupAssist are ease of use, configure is simple, and more importantly, ease of recovery. If you needed to do a complete system recovery or another recovery it is straightforward."
"We can configure the notifications themselves so that the right people get the notifications. This is very helpful. It allows key stakeholders to know if backups have happened and to remind each other to check the backups if something is not right."
"Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"It is a scalable product."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"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."
"The solution needs a dashboard or some form of central control from which you can manage all backups."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
"Compared to other vendors, there are features that you will find not included in Veritas."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"The solution could improve and adapt to new applications in the market so we can integrate Veritas Backup Exec with them to facilitate backup processes within these applications."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"We've experienced some performance issues with Backup Exec. The backup jobs take too long to complete."
"The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight."
"The EDR should be looked at, as the operating system is too weak."
BackupAssist is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. BackupAssist is rated 8.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BackupAssist writes "Provides ransomware protection, does good reporting, and is close to perfect for our use case". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery.
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