We performed a comparison between IDERA SQL Safe Backup 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."The compression, because it drastically reduces the disk space."
"It has reduced our backup time and simplified our backup processes across all the servers."
"What I like most is it is a professional product. It supports all kinds of technologies, and I consider it one of the best backup products available."
"It has a very good user interface."
"Management interface was simple to use once understood."
"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."
"The client side deduplication reduces the backup window."
"This is a complete solution, everything is under one console."
"The feature that is most useful for us is that it backs up every application that we own."
"The tool's information transfer and patching up is easy. The solution offers protection from ransomware which is also a valuable feature."
"The way the filtering goes, if you filter on your view, there is no indication that you have made a selection."
"Make sure you check your backups on a regular basis. Backups do get missed with this tool, for whatever reason."
"I would like to see the pieces that they have put in the web only to be put into the thick client sitting on the desktop client."
"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."
"There could be granular control over metadata components, specifically in the context of JSON data for the product."
"NetBackup is a very old product, and it is based on Linux, which is not user-friendly."
"It is not very user-friendly."
"Setup implementation."
"It's a little bit complex to manage."
"Veritas NetBackup has some limitations and it would be a benefit if we had better documentation."
"Like the other enterprise solutions, Veritas NetBackup isn't easy to implement. It's a little bit hard compared to other solutions like Data Protector for HPE. You have to struggle to learn a lot of features that Veritas NetBackup offers to customers."
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IDERA SQL Safe Backup is ranked 74th in Backup and Recovery while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. IDERA SQL Safe Backup is rated 5.0, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IDERA SQL Safe Backup writes "You can't see any metrics about how long it took you to backup the entire server. We've had a huge reduction in the nightly backup footprint size". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". IDERA SQL Safe Backup is most compared with Rubrik and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec.
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