We performed a comparison between BackupAssist and Veritas NetBackup 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 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."
"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."
"They are among the top in the world for backup and recovery."
"The most valuable feature is replication because, using NetBackup replication, we can have disaster recovery of the data we have."
"I have found it to be the simplest solution to the market. It gives us a complete end to end solution. We are using this solution, Veritas Appliance and another one for access archiving. It is convenient to have all the support from one vendor."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"Veritas NetBackup is very stable and scales out very well."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"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."
"DLO: Client for laptops."
"It stopped doing my backups after I did the last update on it."
"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."
"In the future I would like to see more support for Linux."
"Many solutions become stagnant over time. However, BackupAssist has been consistent in updates but they must continue to innovate and improve to avoid stagnation."
"The security and performance could improve with Veritas NetBackup. The security could be improved by protecting the data from attackers."
"The licensing costs could be more affordable."
"The solution's technical support process should be improved."
"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."
"The biggest problem with NetBackup is licensing."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
"Endpoint backup capability is needed."
"The solution costs too much."
BackupAssist is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 5 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. BackupAssist is rated 8.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. 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 NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". BackupAssist is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec.
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