We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas Backup Exec based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison. According to its users, it is a powerful, comprehensive, and mature solution. Veeam Backup & Replication also received higher marks for its support than Veritas Backup Exec did.
"Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to restore the VMs into a test environment."
"It is way easier to take backup with Veeam Backup & Replication than the regular ones."
"The documentation is very good. It's also easy to install Veeam Backup and Replication."
"Veeam Backup & Replication is a great alternative to what is out there. Some of the backups just allow an agent backup to the cloud. You can back up a thousand different ways, but this is a great way to keep a customer and a company in compliance in that they've got their data secure onsite and offsite. The data being transferred to the NAS at the customer's location and also the data being sent to the cloud is encrypted in transit and it's also encrypted at rest so that nobody is going to be able to hack into that. No one will have the keys to do that."
"Very flexible, all-in-one solution."
"It has helped us to protect our IP address and critical information."
"From my experience, Veeam is very good. Its interface is user-friendly. We can restore it whenever. It's not complicated. It's very easy to manage and administration is very easy."
"Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The flexibility is very good."
"Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file."
"Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"It is easy to set up and use for daily processes and a good solution for preserving crucial data."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"We would like to see support for some additional storage systems."
"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."
"I would prefer it if the backup console did not require use of a specified program but rather that it could be opened from any website."
"The physical server backups and direct storage connectivity need improvement."
"Device backup could be improved."
"The pricing model could be improved. It can be made cheaper."
"Even though the speed has improved over the years, I think that there are some instances where it still takes a while."
"The orchestration feature can be improved. They can improve the virtual machine orchestration to make it similar to VMware. They can also provide an option to automate the backup and recovery and schedule a backup."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"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."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
"The integration with SaaS applications like Office 365 needs to be improved."
"Enhanced support for cloud backup needs to be added."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"They can improve the reporting component. The reports aren't user-friendly at all. You have to download them to Excel to get statistics."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Veritas System Recovery and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Veeam Backup & Replication vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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