We performed a comparison between Unitrends and Veritas NetBackup 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 simple and fast restore routine."
"It is an easy system to use. The support, if needed, is always willing to help."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"It is fairly stable."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"Replication to Forever Cloud."
"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."
"Veritas released a new feature in version 8 of NetBackup called VRP. It's kind of like replication management from VMware. The great thing about this feature is that Veritas gave it to us for free."
"It's a good product, it does what we want it to do."
"The solution offers a lot of really great features that organizations can utilize and take advantage of."
"The Dedup and file storage is great."
"It is easy to use, and you can run it with all kinds of client software environments. It works well with the most popular software, file systems, and operating systems. It is very useful to us."
"Good graphical user interface. It's easy to create policies and to do installs."
"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 solution offers very good storage efficiency, so there's excellent compression and deduplication within the product that our clients really appreciate."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."
"The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved."
"I would like to see the real-time replication process improved, and a zero RPO feature added."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."
"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."
"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."
"Veritas NetBackup has some limitations and it would be a benefit if we had better documentation."
"The product is not able to keep up with other competitors in the market."
"Lacks a reporting feature."
"There may be a learning curve."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"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."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
"Once the protection plan is created, we cannot pause or resume via the web administration page."
Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 110 reviews. Unitrends is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Azure Backup, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Unitrends vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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