We performed a comparison between Quest Rapid Recovery and Veritas NetBackup Appliance 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."The fact that it can take a snapshot of everything on a server and replicate it on another server in real-time is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality."
"Definitely, the mount and recovery points are the most valuable, because if someone deletes a file or something, or if something gets corrupted, we can always revert back to an old change because our repository goes about a month back. The ability to roll back files and the ability to roll back servers is really important."
"The compression and deduplication features have helped to save on storage costs."
"Not having to switch tapes is wonderful. It makes it so easy. We have an on-prem deployment that we also replicate to an offsite replication host. So by not having to deal with tapes and moving them off-site every day and every week, that's amazing ease of use for us."
"Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."
"The best feature of the solution is the user interface."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to back up a physical server to another physical or virtual server."
"Installing this solution is very simple and takes perhaps five or ten minutes."
"It has a lot of very good features. The virtual tape library (VTL) feature is most valuable. Overall, it is easy to use."
"It’s quite scalable."
"The initial setup gets easier the more you do it."
"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."
"The solution is useful for backups."
"The documentation is okay. You are able to follow it and it is helpful."
"It is easy to use and the performance is good."
"It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam."
"In case, if there is anything, it would be the speed of the operation to be finished. Even then, I can easily work on the storing function before the operation is finished."
"When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved."
"It's not really Quest's fault, but the only issue that I had during the time when I was doing a lot of our restores is whenever the server reboots, it has to bring all of the repositories back in again, which takes around five to six hours to pull eight terabytes back in again."
"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."
"In terms of what needs improvement in Quest Rapid Recovery, though the solution is seamless, right now, they are just giving the software which means we'll need to arrange the hardware. If they can combine the appliance and software, that would be a great approach. In the next release of Quest Rapid Recovery, it would be great if they'd add a folder backup feature because only a snapshot backup feature is available at the moment."
"I think the self-paced learning and knowledge base can always be improved so that users can self-service without having to contact either a reseller or Quest. I know there are things that I would have been looking for to try and solve. And the only way I could get there was to actually open a ticket rather than go through self-service through the portal."
"Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually."
"More licensing options could be introduced to the software. It is currently based on capacity only. Compared to competitors, it is difficult to position it economically everywhere. From the usability point of view, they are making many improvements on new interfaces, the SaaS offering, etc."
"The scalability isn't great. Every time you want to add storage, you can't just add a little bit, you need to add a lot."
"The only drawback for NetBackup, and of course for Veritas, is that they have stuck to the same environment and to the same UI - User Interface. This needs to be improved in future releases. It needs to be more dynamic."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance can improve by having a more direct connection to the cloud. It should have the technology to be able to directly communicate with the cloud."
"The upgrade process of the solution needs to be improved since it is extremely complicated, especially without the benefit of a support person who can guide one through it."
"This solution has to have better integration with the cloud, as well as with other solutions such as Business Intelligence products."
"The installation is cumbersome."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration and security."
Quest Rapid Recovery is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Quest Rapid Recovery is rated 8.8, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Quest Rapid Recovery writes "Allows us to do point-in-time recovery and mount the whole server and saves quite a bit of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Quest Rapid Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest NetVault, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Azure Backup and Rubrik, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup, DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce. See our Quest Rapid Recovery vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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