We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup 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."The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."
"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."
"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."
"The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
"The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily."
"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."
"We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use."
"I have found the overall features of the solution very good and there is the option to backup to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"Stability."
"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."
"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."
"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."
"Migrating the physical through a backup and restore to a virtual environment would be very helpful."
"It would be nice to improve the backup acceleration and the fast restoration required."
"It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus point for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions. I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"In the future, their console should not be complicated."
"I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
"They could include backup functionality for enterprise environments."
"The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well."
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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Catalogic DPX, 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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