We compared Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication is praised for its simplicity, ease of use, and effectiveness in meeting backup and recovery needs. However, it has some areas for improvement such as cost, integration, scalability, cloud integration, and technical support. Veeam Backup for Office 365 is commended for its stability, ease of use, and affordability. It also has areas for improvement including integration features, performance consistency, user-friendly interface, storage options, and additional features. Veeam Backup & Replication is more suitable for larger customers or environments with specific requirements, while Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a good choice for those looking for a straightforward and cloud-based solution for Microsoft 365 backup.
"The solution is stable."
"The support offered by both Veeam and our third party supplier is excellent."
"The solution is also easy to manage and work with."
"Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is reliable and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the scalability and the free license of up to ten VMs."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the WAN accelerator. This feature allows for large amounts of data from one location to another. If the bandwidth in the environment is slow it makes the transfer slow but the WAN accelerator feature helps speed the transfer."
"Veeam makes modular solutions, so you can install Veeam Backup for Office 365 and Veeam Backup and Replication in one single server. You can do an all in one installation, and roll it out."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the backups, we do not want to lose any files. Each one of the files is updated on a regular long-term basis and kept together in the Microsoft cloud-only."
"Veeam Backup Replication has good performance and can do location-to-location backups. Additionally, it is user-friendly and easy to manage."
"I think that the scalability is very good. We can't compare it."
"A simple and stable solution for small businesses that use virtualization."
"Veeam's file monitoring capabilities are strong and consistent."
"WAN Accelerator helps tremendously with replicating our data because we have a large chunk of data that gets replicated between our two facilities."
"It's the most easy-to-use backup replication that I have used so far."
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are efficient backup and replication. Additionally, Veeam Backup Replication supports all products and vendors."
"The solution could improve scalability, both in terms of more storage and users. These two attributes are quite important when you talk about good scalability."
"The solution needs to improve its speed."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by reducing the time it takes for backups. I have mentioned this to Veeam and hopefully, in the next version, it will be a faster backup."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"The solution could offer better reporting."
"They should include some more options to send alerts in existing monitoring software."
"When you are working in the Cloud security is very important."
"Currently, I'm working for Huawei and they dropped the support for Huawei, so that's an issue for us."
"It is efficient but can improve security-wise."
"All our customers would like a cheaper license and more flexible deployment."
"The recovery and integration features of Veeam Backup Replication could improve. For example, all VM integration could improve, such as with Hyper-V and VMware."
"The parallel backup process from the Veeam server to Veeam has some limitations. The number of parallel backups should be increased and the compressional is very low. Sometimes it is half or one-third, but other backup solutions' compression levels are very high."
"Sometimes Veeam is not that effective when it comes to legacy environments."
"It is always nice to get products cheaper."
"I like the Acronis backup solutions on the block-based part of backups. That is a functionality that Veeam does not provide."
"It's hard to answer because managing cloud storage in our version could be better, but now that they have improved it in the recent version, I cannot say it's a better point because I know it should be already fixed."
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Cloud Backup with 328 reviews. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Useful instant backup and resort, reliable and responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Cirrus Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Veeam Backup & Replication vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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