We performed a comparison between IBM Spectrum Protect and Veritas Backup Exec 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."You can protect your data and keep it for long durations, without it spending too much time on the local disk."
"Disk-based implementation of a data protection solution for multiple sites is a better fit for my complex data protection needs."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that IBM Spectrum Protect is highly integrated with IBM ESS. In addition, it allows us to back up our virtual servers directly to take VM snapshots. It runs on Linux as well."
"One of the main things that I like about IBM is the versioning of the data - meaning that we can have multiple versions of a file or directory of a server."
"We are able to run it in an enterprise quite easily with one or two resources."
"You can do restores very quickly. You can mount a drive and restore it right from the drive."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"We have better, faster backup times, and it has improved efficiency in the backups."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface."
"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 flexibility is very good."
"We are satisfied with the stability of the product."
"The dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"The solution should improve the ability to monitor backup failure."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"I think Spectrum Protect's interface is not so user-friendly, but the interface is not so friendly. Some of the functions are too complicated. I prefer a simpler solution."
"The most important feature which I wish to be added involves the GUI, the user interface."
"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
"The solution could be more user-friendly and provide better monitoring. The monitoring should be improved first since it is a higher priority."
"A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution."
"It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use."
"Its scalability should be improved."
"They can work on the issue of the job timing out when it is unable to reach a selection item. It sometimes hangs up on the selection item, thus preventing the job from continuing."
"The deduplication feature can be improved."
"In terms of improvements, I think the pricing model could be improved. They charge you by port, for every port that you have even if you're not using all of them."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"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."
IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 16th in Backup and Recovery with 16 reviews. IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Works with a multitude of platforms and databases, not limited to Windows or Linux and enterprise-class, reliable, and fast". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Supports synthetic backup and allows you to start virtual machines on the backup set and do multiple things in one backup configuration". IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery. See our IBM Spectrum Protect vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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