Veeam Backup &amp; Replication Reviews

With WAN acceleration, we send less data through our WAN lines. The reporting tool shows the status of the infrastructure.

Chris ChilderhoseGreat review. I liked hearing about your Exchange backups and restores as we... more »

Alberto Zampieri

Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: The quality of compression and deduplication is better than other products. The WAN acceleration allows us to send less data through our WAN lines. The easiness of the suite. The reporting tool, Veeam One, is very powerful and helps obtain a clear view of the infrastructure... more »

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Oliver Krehan

System Engineer at a software R&D company with 501-1,000 employees

Veeam Cloud Connect is a new feature that will make integrating service providers even more simple to store backups outside your datacenter

Originally posted at http://www.v-strange.de/index.... Veeam released the new version of Backup&Replication v8. The new version contains more than 200 new features and functions and several bugfixes to v7 patch4. Additionally v8 GA code will include a workaround for the newly found... more »

Ability to verify backups of critical servers means I can sleep at night. Backup of physical servers could be better.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. v9.5 has come even further than v8 from your review with... more »

derek.hennessy

Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: This is actually quite a hard choice to make when dealing with Veeam Backup & Replication. There are a number of great features such as WAN acceleration, deduplication & compression, replication and the grandfather-father-son backup tree. Not to mention backup to... more »

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Chris ChilderhoseNote that with Veeam 8 Patch 2 they have integrated the Veeam Endpoint Backup... more »

Kristian LarsenYou could consider unitrends as a one stop solution or use the tsm for ve... more »

Jens Danneschewski

Technical Consultant / EUC Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 29 2017

The ability of instant VM recovery is the most valuable feature. It is more stable then most other solutions in this area.

Valuable Features: The ability of instant VM recovery, which means starting the backup VM and getting it online while the recovery is still happening is the most valuable feature. Also, the ability to construct a multi-tier backup system, where the final backups can even be stored on tape. It... more »

Reliability of backup process are valuable as this is used as a failover migration tool.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. Veeam is a great product for backup. more »

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Chris D Martin

Architect at a tech services company

Valuable Features: Instant recovery of VMs, reliability of backup process are valuable as this is used as a failover migration tool. • Improvements to My Organization: We had a vendor screw up a financial accounting program at tax season, a critical time for one of our customers. We were... more »

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Chris ChilderhoseIt would be nice if Veeam went in to the physical backup realm but they are... more »

Paul F.Veeam was designed with VMware in mind and expanded to Hyperv. I have asked... more »

Heidar Afjeie

IT Project Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Patch release and support are efficient and it doesn't take ages for most issues to be resolved.

Valuable Features: It's very simple to implement and very fast to learn. One backup can be done and many restorations are possible from that backup. It's mature integrity within a virtualized environment has always been important. • Improvements to My Organization: Veeam B&R saved our... more »

Mihai Langa

System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at METRO SYSTEMS Romania

It has provided us with much needed high availability for our retail sites, although it's not exactly ready for very large scale and complex environments with more than 1000 VMs.

Valuable Features: The main feature we're currently using is the replication function that allows us to provide high availability in all of our company's retail sites throughout Europe & Asia. Backup is also a good tool, but we mainly use it in our HQ. • Improvements to My... more »

Schneider Kumi Larbi

Senior Storage & Virtualisation Engineer (Managed Services) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're able to restore entire virtual machines in under 15 minute, although I'd like to see the virtual-environment concept or technology applied to backup physical servers.

Valuable Features: Support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) that allows direct backup from snapshots of storage systems that support VVols and VMware Virtual SAN 2.0 Granular recovery of objects from MS SQL, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Backup and replication of Fault Tolerant (FT)... more »

It has provided a higher level of reliability to core company systems. However, it needs better reporting of replication job details to provide troubleshooting insight.

Chris ChilderhoseIf you want physical backup you can always try the Endpoint Backup product as... more »

SysAdmin679

Systems Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Virtual Machine replication between sites. • Improvements to My Organization: It has provided a higher level of reliability to core company systems and services. • Room for Improvement: Better reporting of replication job details in order to provide better... more »

Many valuable features. The rest of the field is playing catchup.

Chris ChilderhoseHave you tried using the Backup Enterprise Manager for reporting or Veeam... more »

Mihai LangaThe EM isn't exactly made for very large environments. Veeam One is good but... more »

Gareth Petersen

Infrastructure Engineer at a local government with 501-1,000 employees

Valuable Features: There are so many valuable features but my favourites would have to be Instant Recovery especially when you have very demanding RTO's imposed on you. Virtual lab is also a brilliant feature for spinning up a DR/Test environment for your replicas. • Improvements to... more »

Harvey Jimenez

Virtualization Specialist at InterLAN S.A.S.

I'm able to optimize my clients' recovery procedures in less time with the Instant VM Recovery feature.

Valuable Features: Capacity to start a VM directly from the backup repository (Instant VM Recovery) The explorer for restoring items (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, MS-SQL and Oracle (soon)). • Improvements to My Organization: I am a specialist in Veeam, and my clients... more »

It has item-level recovery for Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint, as well as backups for recoverability tests (SureBackup) and from storage snapshots (3PAR).

Chris ChilderhoseGreat review. Have you tried the Endpoint Backup software for your physical... more »

Eric Machabert

Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Backup recoverability tests (SureBackup) Backup from storage snapshots (3PAR) Item-level recovery for Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint Virtual lab and on-demand sandboxes • Improvements to My Organization: Backups and restoration are... more »

Ed Motsinger

Acting Manager, Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We like the integration with vCenter and the reporting it provides.

Valuable Features: Ease of use Reporting Great integration with vCenter Dedupe abilities No tape • Improvements to My Organization: It helps us to restore and backup our data, along with ease of use. • Room for Improvement: Archive to tape could be better, but the new... more »

Chris Childerhose

Systems Engineer at McMillan LLP

Jun 09 2017

By moving the Veeam server to a physical server and creating a Proxy server on each of the hosts we are able to leverage SAN based backup which is very fast.

Valuable Features: Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer. • Improvements to My Organization: With moving the Veeam server to a physical server and creating a Proxy server on each of the hosts we are able to leverage SAN based backup which... more »

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reviewer183906I like this review. Looking for best solution for physical and VM. more »

reviewer183906In your opinion, can your solution create a trusted back up system for both... more »

Hernán Paggi

IT Administrator and Sr. VMware Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 13 2017

there should be more manufacturers integrating their technologies, as that would allow more customers to make use of this excellent feature.

Valuable Features: RTO time and speed The product allows us to use data more efficiently, reducing the cost of storage and backup time. It is vital to have data available in the shortest possible time. Instant file level recovery Instant File-Level Restore or IFLR can be used to recover... more »

Aravind Haresh

Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 04 2017

The SQL table-level restore helps the customer to restore a single table instead of the entire database.

Valuable Features: There are many features that include the SQL table-level restore, Instant VM Recovery, and SureBackup, which are valuable to us. SQL table-level restore: It helps the customer to restore a single table instead of the entire database which reduces the backup window... more »

Creates backups from storage snapshots. The heavy client is still needed to perform advanced tasks.

Chris ChilderhoseVeeam agent for Windows 2.0 expands to physical now and we have moved from... more »

Aravind HareshYes i agree with you that veeam has an agent for windows and linux physical... more »

Eric Machabert

Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 04 2017

Valuable Features: Backup from storage snapshots. We are using 3PAR full flash arrays. This allows us to have nearly no impact on our production workloads. Backup Copy Job integrated to HPE Catalyst to copy our backups to our third Datacenter with the best timeframe Replication Job base on a... more »

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Chris ChilderhoseVeeam is still one of the best. Be interesting to see how Version 10 improves... more »

Eric MachabertThere is a lot to come in v10. Have a look at the feedbacks from VeeamON 2k17. more »

Ali Sadr

IT Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 29 2017

Its ease of use and simple UI are the most valuable features.

Valuable Features: Its ease of use is the most valuable feature. It has a very simple UI. • Improvements to My Organization: Veeam is a very stable product. The ease of use and UI are some of its highlights. Learning this tool is very easy and you do not need any training classes. •... more »

reviewer378747

Manager - I.T. Operations at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 29 2017

Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery.

Valuable Features: Enables us to restore the VM when the needs arises and for disaster recovery. • Improvements to My Organization: We had an issue with power in the data center and one of the IBM storage devices could not startup. We managed to restore all of the VMs from Veeam and... more »

Jeremy Steger

Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 29 2017

We are able to assure greater uptime for our servers and clients.

Valuable Features: With Replication, Veeam allows us to have a duplicated VM on standby. In the event that we need to failover to the replicated VM, Veeam allows a very simple and fast procedure to do so. • Improvements to My Organization: With Veeam Backup and Replication, we have... more »

Khaled Eid

IT Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

May 29 2017

Running the virtual machine from within the backup gives us the chance to test the machine before restoring it.

Valuable Features: Running the virtual machine from within the backup gives us the chance to test the machine before restoring it. • Improvements to My Organization: In the past, we were using another backup product. We used it to restore the machine multiple times, until we reached the... more »

Paul Mercieca

Business Development Consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

May 29 2017

Instant VM restore is one of the most valuable features of this product.

Valuable Features: Instant VM restore is one of the coolest functions within this product. It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort, especially when backing up a VM before running some maintenance. • Improvements to My Organization: Previously, a backup expert would be... more »

Schneider Kumi Larbi

Senior Storage & Virtualisation Engineer (Managed Services) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 29 2017

We can offer disaster recovery services for managed services customers.

Valuable Features: The object level restore from the Active Directory Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SQL Backup and restore of vCloud Director Objects Direct SAN integration with 3PAR I like these features because they are helpful in offering additional and detailed disaster recovery services... more »

VM backup and ease of use are the most valuable features.

Chris ChilderhoseNot sure if you are on vSphere 6.5 but the improvements to snapshot removal... more »

Schneider Kumi LarbiI am still on 6.0U2 i plan moving to 6.5 by the end of summer. We are using... more »

Tan Kian Chye

Master Solutions Architect (APAC) / Data Protection Specialists at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 29 2017

Valuable Features: VM backup and ease of use are the most valuable features. • Improvements to My Organization: It helps the discovery of the new VM. It allows me to use the same tools when we decided to move from VMware to Hyper-V. • Room for Improvement: The physical system support... more »

Barry Dutchak

Director, Information Technology at a newspaper with 51-200 employees

May 22 2017

The ability to offload backup snapshots to the SAN helps with reducing the backup durations.

Valuable Features: The greatest benefit of this software is its reliability. The ability to offload backup snapshots to the SAN helps with reducing the backup durations. The ability to turn on each VM for verification that the backup is reliable is another great feature. Recovery of a VM often... more »

The biggest advantage has become the functionality of instant recovery and a synthetic full backup.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. Definitely love the snapshot integration for backup as we are a... more »

Grzegorz Śliwiński

Owner

May 22 2017

Valuable Features: In the past, it was an agentless backup for virtual machines run on the VMware ESX and ESXi (free ESXi without vCenter) servers. As the competitive products also began to use CBT and began to dismantle agentless backup, the biggest advantage for me was the functionality of... more »

Alberto Zampieri

Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 18 2017

The WAN accelerator feature has been the most valuable for me. We evaluated many tools, but this was clearly better.

Valuable Features: The WAN accelerator feature has been the most valuable for me. My customer was in trouble because he found a huge quantity of data to be moved from foreign countries sites to the HQ in Milan. That feature reduced the time needed to complete the task from 25 days to less than... more »

Giovanni Golinelli

Virtualization, Storage & Data Protection Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 18 2017

It is integrated with HPE storage solutions and it supports VM recovery.

Valuable Features: It’s very simple to implement and use. It is agentless. It is integrated with HPE storage solutions (SAN and a deduplicated repository) and it supports instant VM recovery. • Improvements to My Organization: We have significantly improved the restore process of single... more »

Being agentless minimized the install process for new servers.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. An appliance would be awesome but not sure if that is a... more »

Laurent Lonay

Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 18 2017

Valuable Features: Being agentless minimized the install process for new servers. • Improvements to My Organization: It provides more efficiency to restore lost files that were deleted by users. It provides a restoring process for a complete server. • Room for Improvement: ... more »

It offers granular restore points for SharePoint. I'm looking for it to support Unix/Linux platforms.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. We use Veeam as well and upgraded to the Enterprise Plus license... more »

Ryan Tan

IT Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: Simple VM backup & restore management console Works with both industry standard hypervisors, VMware & Hyper-V Fast and easy implementation Granular restore points for SharePoint • Improvements to My Organization: It provides simple DR operation &... more »

Hamed Takafouyan

Technical Manager & Vice Chairman of the Board at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Backup speed and data compression power have helped us.

Valuable Features: SureBackup is the product’s most valuable feature to me. • Improvements to My Organization: Its backup speed and data compression power have improved the way my organization functions. • Room for Improvement: I think it would be great if it could back up from inside... more »

Rohit Luthra

Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Instant VM recovery reduces the time to recover an entire virtual machine.

Valuable Features: U-AIR (Universal Application Item recovery) – This is an important feature as it saves lot of time and offers flexibility to recover anything without wasting too much time on complete image recovery. Instant VM recovery – This feature miraculously reduces the time to... more »

Igor Kachuriner

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Includes useful features for a virtualized environment such as those based on VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Valuable Features: It has very strong and useful features for a virtualized environment such as those based on VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V. The backup software management is user friendly. • Improvements to My Organization: Backing up a virtual environment is quicker than our previous... more »

Allows us to restore from disk, tape or from our NetApp appliance snapshots.

Chris ChilderhoseVeeam is always improving the tape support but whether they go the Physical... more »

networko207291

Network Operations Manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: The ability to restore both the VMs and single files is very flexible in Veeam 9. We can restore from disk, tape or from our NetApp appliance snapshots. It has a myriad of effective ways to backup and recover. • Improvements to My Organization: By allowing us to restore... more »

We utilize the integration with VMware. Reporting via PowerShell is useful for our daily checks.

Chris ChilderhoseLooking forward to the Nimble integration myself to be able to do what you do... more »

TechOpsTL487

Technical Operations Team Lead - EU at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Valuable Features: The overall backup tools, as we use this to prevent data loss. • Improvements to My Organization: Coming from tape backup environment to using Veeam and cloud upload dramatically changed and improved our backup process. The increase in backup speed was truly amazing,... more »

Luke Mulcahy

Solutions Architect at FLEXdata Solutions

From our viewpoint, top features include: simple restoration capabilities and integration with NetApp Integrated Data Protection capabilities.

Valuable Features: The highly granular yet simple restoration capabilities for critical applications such as Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Oracle, via an agentless single-pass backup. The deep integration with NetApp Integrated Data Protection capabilities, including... more »

Troy Hiatt

System Architect - Cloud Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The system automatically tests the backups, without impacting the production systems.

Valuable Features: Instant Recovery – Instantly recover a virtual machine from the backup file on backup storage, then migrate it back into production. RTO’s can be measured in minutes. Virtual Lab – Spin up an environment (web app, middleware, and a database) from the backup files in a... more »

Provides the ability to test the backups and replicas of backups in our backup site.

Chris ChilderhoseI agree about the physical servers and if they can come up with something... more »

Marcio Mota

Head of Infrastructure Division at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Valuable Features: Integration with VMware is essential, in addition to the functionality of Instant Recovery, WAN Acceleration, SureBackup, SureReplica and for the most part, it is not necessary to install agents for granular backups and restores. The adoption of compression and deduplication... more »

Nuno Carvalho

Professional Services at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It is simple to install, configure and manage.

Valuable Features: The fact that it comes with backup and replication is a must. The integration with EMC Data Domain and similar products is also a very good feature. The same can be said about the backups from storage snapshots. • Improvements to My Organization: We use Veeam with EMC... more »

Jim Gleason

Systems/Network Administrator at a printing company

We were using Symantec Backup Exec 2010. We moved away from it in favor of being able to perform total VM backups.

Valuable Features: Ease of VM and File Restores. The ability to restore an entire VM and guest OS files is invaluable. • Improvements to My Organization: We have been able to move away from file-based backups, and now have total VMs protected. • Room for Improvement: I'd like to see... more »

George Baldonado

President & CEO at a tech services company

One of the most important features is the self-restart feature which we use to provide remote backups.

Valuable Features: One of the most important features of Veeam is the excellent self-restart feature. We use Veeam to provide remote backups for us as well as our customers. Many times a communications glitch will occur that will disrupt the backup process during the offsite backup procedure.... more »

Niko Münster

Specialist for System Integration at a tech vendor

Features I like include Integrated WAN Acceleration, Instant VM Recovery and SureBackup.

Valuable Features: CBT technology Instant VM Recovery Recovery Explorer for Exchange, AD, Oracle SureBackup Integrated WAN Acceleration • Improvements to My Organization: Veeam improved our backup infrastructure to help save backup space. With the integrated WAN acceleration, the... more »

We can now perform restores as file level instead of the whole VM.

Chris ChilderhoseLike your review. I can't wait for 9.5 with the physical server agent and... more »

Mark Tarrant

Windows System Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: The ease of use of the product and overall confidence in the product and Veeam support are valuable. • Improvements to My Organization: We can now perform restores as file level instead of the whole VM. • Room for Improvement: A better reporting function where we... more »

Harshit Singh

Senior Implementation Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

With storage integration, it has improved the backup windows and reduced the impact on the VMs.

Valuable Features: Backup and SureLab are this product’s most valuable features to me. • Improvements to My Organization: With storage integration, it has improved the backup windows and reduced the impact on the VMs. SureBackup has also come in handy when we are looking at updating... more »

Jake Salinger

Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Instant VM Recovery is valuable as it provides us with rapid recovery of failed/lost VMs with a low recovery time objective (RTO).

Valuable Features: Sure Backup is valuable because of its capability to test every backup of virtual machines. Instant VM Recovery is also valuable as it provides us with rapid recovery of failed/lost VMs with a low recovery time objective (RTO). • Improvements to My Organization: Using... more »

RGuyler

Data Center Expert at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The installation is wizard-driven and will install any dependencies you may need that aren’t already installed.

Valuable Features: Veeam is a solid performer for backing up VMware. By leveraging VMware’s changed block tracking (CBT) the incremental backups are very efficient and small. Veeam also has a rather intuitive interface that is easy to understand and is easy to get up and running in short order.... more »

Marc Papillon

System and network administrator at a government

The 3-2-1 backup rule is good -- it has three copies of data, two different medias, with one off-site copy.

Valuable Features: It is installed and configured in 15 minutes. It is reliable and you can really count on its restore jobs. It also provides very good deduplication alongside fast backup/restore on tape and instant VM recovery and allowing you to restore a VM onto an NFS mount point anywhere... more »

BitLooker makes you exclude deleted file blocks, swap and hibernation files, and user files or folders.

Chris ChilderhosePhysical server backup is coming in 9.5 and works very well. Beta testing... more »

Muhammad Adel

Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: BitLooker: It is an advanced technology designed to reduce backup size. It makes you exclude deleted file blocks, swap and hibernation files, and user files or folders. • Improvements to My Organization: Based on my previous experience with different backup products,... more »

Alessandro Rani

IT Development Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Using Veeam Cloud Connect you can backup and restore to and from the cloud.

Valuable Features: The usability in general, support and knowledge documentation. I also find the training, and webinars useful. Apart from this, it also has specific features that are useful such as easy restore functionalities, instant file-level recovery, integration with multiple storage... more »

Jameson North

Network Manager at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

The ability to backup servers without an agent installed is valuable.

Valuable Features: The ability to backup servers without an agent installed is very valuable. Many of our applications are customized by us, and may break with constant changes and updates to third party software and operating system changes. So the ability to integrate the backup solution into... more »

Eamonn Deering

Professional Service/Solution Team at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The most often used feature is a simple restore. The next most used feature is restoring a full VM due to corruption, virus or human error in managing the VM.

Valuable Features: For most clients I look after, the most often used feature is a simple restore. Once the backup is on disk, most restores can kick in within 15 minutes and be restored within 30 minutes for files, emails and SQL databases etc. It doesn’t matter if it’s from last night or last... more »

It drastically lowered the strain on our hosted environment during backup windows all while decreasing the amount of time the backups require for completion.

Orlee GillisWere your expectations for the standard of file recovery met, surpassed, or... more »

Matt Baltz

Data Center Engineer at Strategic Solutions of Virginia

Valuable Features: All of the explorers, bitlooker, scale out backup repository, and backup appliance integration. • Improvements to My Organization: Veeam drastically lowered the strain on our hosted environment during backup windows all while decreasing the amount of time the backups... more »

We use the Replication module in our disaster recovery solution for a FAT replication.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. It will definitely be nice if they incorporate the Endpoint... more »

Yair Naveh

CIO / CTO at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Valuable Features: The restore to isolated network, being able to run the machine in sandbox mode, and afterwards validating that you got what you wanted to replace the VM. • Improvements to My Organization: Our backup process speed increased by 70%. Also, we are able to use the... more »

SolutionsEng362

Solutions Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

You can bring back up applications within five minutes if needed. When the disk capacity is getting low, you have to clear the backup disk & then perform the backup.

Valuable Features: Instant Veeam Recovery is invaluable as it has eliminated the need for High Availability as you can bring back up applications within five minutes if needed. • Improvements to My Organization: In term of cost saving, it does reflect the justification made to the... more »

Keith Pratola

Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I can quickly restore an entire VM even in a test environment.

Valuable Features: The Backup Enterprise Manager is great as it allows me to see and manage all backup jobs from multiple Backup servers. The ability to create separate backup and replication jobs and also create failover plans. The Direct NFS Access is also a great feature for backing up VMs... more »

After we started using it, we transferred all our 30 virtual servers in seven hours. They should support physical server backups, though I believe v9 will do this.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review. I really like that suggestion about Parallel Processing option... more »

Güven Yakan

IT Manger at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: The ability to perform de-duplication is the most valuable feature for me. It also performs SQL backups so that I can restore SQL database table bases. Replication time very good. For example, I can replicate 4TB data to the DR side in 5 hours with a 10 Mbps data line... more »

We've reduced the time it takes to manage backups, which can be done without offsite infrastructure. Like with all technologies, however, there's the constant need for updates, patches, replacements.

Chris ChilderhoseVeeam is a great product as we use it and I am looking forward to V9 for the... more »

Tomás Céspedes

Information Technology Bureau Deputy Director at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features: With Veeam Cloud Connect and Azure Storage you can get your backups offsite. With it, you don't have the complexity of managing an offsite infrastructure. It may even help to reduce your DRC strategy costs. • Improvements to My Organization: For us, it's a simple... more »

Didier Van Hoye

Technical Architect at a government with 501-1,000 employees

We can now leverage in-box Windows deduplication, giving us longer retention times and spaces to spare on our backup targets.

Valuable Features: Ease of use Robustness Scalability • Improvements to My Organization: Saves IT operations a lot of time and frustration. Also, the ROI for our CFO is tremendous whereas we did not have data deduplication on our previous backup product, unless licensed at a cost... more »

Shaun Herridge

IT Manager at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

We've been able to perform granular restores of Exchange mailboxes, though we've yet to use the full restore functionality.

Valuable Features: Regular backup/recovery is the main feature, but I really like the Exchange mailbox recovery tool, and the ability to isolate test environments. It is really easy to use as well, and it's a powerful backup/recovery solution. • Improvements to My Organization: ... more »

ITManager866

IT manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

It allows us to recover email and items from the Exchange and Active directories, although scheduling backups could be improved.

Valuable Features: Recovering single emails from Exchange and single items from Active Directory. • Room for Improvement: A different kind of scheduling. We would like to do backup twice a day. • Use of Solution: I've used it for one year. • Deployment Issues: Once we had... more »

Off-site replication was good and gave us a reliable backup, but direct SAN-to-SAN replication needs improvement.

Chris ChilderhoseScheduling twice a day would be a good option. As a workaround you could... more »

Maxim Ivanovafaik, you can schedule the job to run it as often as you need. you can read... more »

John Bailey

Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Valuable Features: Off-site replication was good. • Improvements to My Organization: We were struggling with having software that would give us reliable backup and when we implemented the Veeam solution, it solved the problem for us. • Room for Improvement: Direct SAN to SAN... more »

It ensures that backup times are kept to a minimum and reduces the amount of data that is replicated to additional disks off-site.

reviewer306474This isn't a really informed post. Veeam doesn't have SAN to SAN... more »

reviewer183906Generally all San to San back ups will experience problems with all vendors.... more »

Richard Haverly

Technical Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features: The functionality available with Veeam enterprise licenses, allow a VMware vSphere snapshot to be integrated and transferred to HP 3PAR storage snapshots; this effectively off-loads all backup traffic to the storage network. The Original VMware snapshot is then released (this... more »

Kevin Finkley

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We can now perform replications for migrating data and infrastructure upgrades.

Valuable Features: Its replication piece allows us to migrate over to different servers and data centers. Veeam lets me move machines from older platforms. I could have used the replication tools from VMware, but not for the older platform. Veeam allows the upgrade of infrastructure as... more »

ICTConsultant746

ICT Consultant at a government with 501-1,000 employees

We're able to check the quality of our backups and to access reports that let us know what happened during backups.

Valuable Features: Reliability: we need backups we can depend on Ease of use: when there's an issue and downtime, there's stress involved, and we should be able to restore things without reading 40 pages in a manual Reporting: we want to know what happened during the backup and what the... more »

Mahdi Mohammadnezhad

Network specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're able to backup our VMs quickly and without downtime.

Valuable Features: The speed of performing backups and restores. It's super fast. • Improvements to My Organization: We looked for the best solution to get backups of our VM without downtime, and I found this was the best solution. We highly recommend it for virtual servers. •... more »

It's provided us with a file-level recovery option and it's stable, efficient, and flexible.

Chris ChilderhoseNice review and this is one of the best virtual backups out there. Looking... more »

Sheikh Abdul Farhan

IT Consultant and Engineer at Cloud Services

Valuable Features: The file-level recovery option has filled a gap in our system. • Room for Improvement: Remote management console Physical server backups • Use of Solution: I've used it for about three or so years. • Deployment Issues: No issues encountered. ... more »

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Orlee Gillis

Content and Community Manager

IT Central Station

Jun 05 2017

[INFOGRAPHIC] Top Backup and Recovery Enterprise Software -- June 2017

As the breadth of the cyber landscape continues to grow, backup and recovery tools are becoming increasingly relevant to the security needs of enterprise tech professionals. In order to combat threats such as data breaches, ransomware attacks, cyber espionage, and others, IT Central Station... more »

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Chris ChilderhoseNice to see Veeam at the top. Still one of the best out there. more »

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Tomas DalebjörkIBM Spectrum Protect is the best as it can protect many different type of data. more »

Orlee Gillis

Content and Community Manager

IT Central Station

Jun 25 2017

Top 4 Cloud Backup Tools -- Q2 2017

What do cloud backup software users look for when choosing software for their backup and recovery needs?IT Central Station’s crowdsourced user review platform helps technology decision makers around the world to better connect with peers and other independent experts who provide advice without... more »

Orlee Gillis

Content and Community Manager

IT Central Station

Jul 09 2017

Top 8 Backup and Recovery Software Tools 2017

IT Central Station’s crowdsourced user review platform helps technology decision makers around the world to better connect with peers and other independent experts who provide advice without vendor bias. Our users rank their top backup and recovery software of choice; discussing the tools’ cloud... more »

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Pierre ChapusJust to say that - Veeam is good for VM backups. But cannot really cover... more »

HenryCool review! Who is No. 9? more »

Cheryl Crosswhere is Networker and Avamar ? more »

Pierre ChapusNetworker is an old traditional software able to backup files. But it has... more »

Stephen PetersonWe use Quest RapidRecovery. For the most part, we have always been able to... more »

User Assessments By Topic About Veeam Backup & Replication

Valuable Features

Application data recovery works great in our environment especially restoring MS Exchange mailbox items. There are cases where emails or attachments which can back date to more than 12 months old are needed by users.

66 opinions »

Improvements to My Organization

Backup and recovery windows have been significantly improved. By using an adequate number of backup proxies, more jobs can be executed simultaneously. Image replication for DRP and Sure backup to verify data consistency have also met our audit criteria for data protection objectives.

64 opinions »

Room for Improvement

We expect to see more integrations from the software company with storage vendors. Especially on dedupe appliances and non unified storage arrays. This will help us to cut down the storage investment cost and have more flexibility on hardware choices. Also, there are demands to protect data on end user computers and devices. Hope to see more update in this area in near future.

65 opinions »

Scalability Issues

With limited storage space available, we have to use reverse incremental backup to keep only one set of full backup on the latest date. This helps us to manage the free space and make sure fast recovery always available.

50 opinions »

Technical Support

The tech support is always there to help out but you need to take note of the time difference. They don't seems to have dedicated resource to cover the APAC time zone from what I have experienced.

55 opinions »

Previous Solutions

I previously used Backup Exec, the Acronis suite and many others, but Veeam was clearly better; that is the reason why I switched.

43 opinions »

ROI

We were able to recover our investment on Veeam within about 8 months. This was due largely to reduced licensing costs initially but the majority of the savings came from a reduction in the management overheads and the previous baby-sitting we had to do of our backup solution.

12 opinions »

Pricing, Setup Cost and Licensing

Worth the money especially if you have high consolidation ratio per physical host.

45 opinions »

Veeam Backup & Replication Questions

reviewer216081

User

Jun 22 2017

Error when using Backup to Tape

When I try to backup to Tape I get this error: Media family not found (mediaFamilyID:). I have found nothing on the web to fix this problem. I am using Veeam 9.5 more »

Abbasi Begum

User

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

I'm looking for a breakdown of the major differences between these Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions: 1. Arcserve UDP 2. Acronis Backup 3. Veeam Backup 4. VMware vDPA more »

6 answers

Kevin McDanielComparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to... more »

Peter GibsonI can only vouch for Veeam which we use in a 100% virtualised environment.... more »

Gregory WestI second Kevin's remark. It is almost impossible to compare various backup... more »

Pkuo

IT consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Software replication to remote sites during disaster recovery?

I have been doing research on multiple VM (windows) backup/replication software like Veeam, Appassure, Unitrend, and Zerto. They all have one issue: if you want fast recovery at a remote site during a disaster, you have to have a live backup or standby VMs at the remote site. The problem would... more »

11 answers

Florin ConstantinescuIfI understand correctly the guy needs a fast recovery solution for the... more »

Florin ConstantinescuI would also recommend to use Vision DoubleTake at VM level dat has an CDP ,... more »

reviewer191712If you don't have live backup? Well as per my understanding backup is always... more »

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager

IT Central Station

Any users have experience with Veeam Backup Solutions?

Recently Veeam announced the release of their new Veeam Availability Suite -- the bundling of of their Backup and Replication product with their One virtualization management product. Any users have experience with Veeam Backup Solutions? Have you had positive experiences with them? What about... more »

4 answers

Ishtiaq NazeerYes I have has a chance to do a POC for the Veeam backup and replication... more »

DataProVeeam is a good solution IF you have a Complete Virtual environment....they... more »

KENEILWE MASAKEI'm not experienced with Veeam rather the backup solution I could recommend... more »

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Systems Architekt mit mehr als 20 Berufsjahren, Erfahrungen im internationalen Bereich, bietet Infrastruktur Management, Datacenter Planning, Team- und Personalmanagment und umfangreiches und aktuelles Wissen im Bereich IT Operations.

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Reviewed Veeam Backup & Replication: Creates backups from storage snapshots. The heavy...

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Reviewed Veeam Backup & Replication: For 10000 + VM environments this product is the...

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Reviewed Veeam Backup & Replication: I'm able to optimize my clients' recovery procedures...