We performed a comparison between Veritas Backup Exec 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."Setting up Backup Exec is straightforward. It took less than two weeks to get it up and running. You need maybe two people at most if you have a Veritas-certified engineer."
"We have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy."
"It is responding very well, and its performance is good. It has a lot of options. For backup, you can connect it to a cloud or a physical hard drive. They also provide an API for integration with different platforms and products. However, we have not integrated it with another product."
"It is a simple and flexible solution to work with."
"The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft."
"The backup potential of the solution is very good. It's protected us in the past very well and allowed us to get up and running after an attack with minimal loss."
"The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the easy-to-use intuitive GUI. It is very easy to understand. I have never lost data and I have been able to recover all the data I need."
"It gives us the ability to locate and restore critical files which users may have intentionally or unknowing deleted a while ago."
"We can add multiple appliances to the product."
"The most valuable feature is that the backup and restoring process is very fast."
"The solution uses minimal resources."
"The most valuable features of Veritas NetBackup Appliance are the ease of use and the familiar interface."
"We find the pricing is reasonable."
"The product enables me to recover the information of the appliances in the organization."
"The solution has a very easy-to-navigate user interface."
"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."
"Firstly, the GUI for 2014 is mostly confusing, i.e., if you need to add any additional technical features, then it doesn't require a change to the GUI."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"Veritas Backup Exec should be more user-friendly. The costs should also be much lower and it should be easier to go through the disaster recovery process."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"It could provide better ease of management than one of its competitors."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"There still a lot of room for improvement in synthetic technologies, especially when targeted to deduplication media."
"Veritas NetBackup Appliance could improve the configuration, it could be more user-friendly."
"It would be a better solution if we were able to make more reports in regards to the backup system."
"The monitoring could be a bit better."
"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."
"The price needs to be improved because it is really expensive."
"I would like to see support for databases such as MySQL and MongoDB."
"They need to make the licensing more clear. They should give all of the licensing details for the portals and be more clear. I have accidentally purchased the incorrect license because it's not clear."
"The tool's pricing is expensive and could be lower."
Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is ranked 20th in Backup and Recovery with 46 reviews. Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8, while Veritas NetBackup Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup Appliance writes "Offers good connectivity, easy to use and stable solution ". Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Veritas NetBackup Appliance is most compared with Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), DD Boost, ExaGrid EX Series and HPE StoreOnce. See our Veritas Backup Exec vs. Veritas NetBackup Appliance report.
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