Veeam Backup & Replication Reviews

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.

Based on my previous experience with different backup products, Veeam is the best one that understands and integrates easily with virtual infrastructure.

Add new features on application backup and recovery. And expand the range of applications supported.

I have used it for about two years.

There was some incompatibility with Windows drivers, but it was fixed by the support team.

Technical support is excellent. I had three cases and they all were solved perfectly. The support team is highly qualified.

I worked with Symantec NetBackup/Commvault and EMC NetWorker. Veeam is the best for virtualization backup.

Initial setup was straightforward and the steps were so simple.

My ROI is 50%.

Pricing/licensing is fair enough. Licensing for this software is per CPU socket.

Consider it if you are running a totally virtualized infrastructure. And try to focus on Veeam as the single reporting tool. It is just very useful and easy.

• CBT technology
• Instant VM Recovery
• Recovery Explorer for Exchange, AD, Oracle
• SureBackup
• Integrated WAN Acceleration

Veeam improved our backup infrastructure to help save backup space. With the integrated WAN acceleration, the data transfer of our backup files to cloud storage sped up.

Instant VM Recovery provides very fast recovery of our critical VMs.

I think it would be great to have the ability to use WAN acceleration as an integrated feature for local backup storage to save a lot more space.

I have used this solution for about five years.

I have not yet encountered any deployment or stability or scalability issues. If the backup doesn’t work, the issue is not with Veeam but rather with the VM.

Customer service works very well.

Technical support also works very well.

I implemented it by myself. My advice for implementation is to install Veeam on a dedicated backup server. It is important to plan a backup strategy like 3-2-1: 3 copies on 2 different medias and 1 offsite.

It is important to count all the sockets of vm-hosts to get the right license.

We also use Altaro Backup for some small customers. Altaro also works great for its price.

Try it and love it.

The ease of use of the product and overall confidence in the product and Veeam support are valuable.

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

A better reporting function where we can see all the job statistics as standard rather than buying this feature with Veeam One.

I've been using it for six to eight months.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

Using Synthetic Full Backup caused issues with storage, but since switching to True Full Backup everything seams to be fine.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

It's 10/10.

We used an in house script, which did not address a file level restore.

It was fine, but the current setup process could do with some tweaking. It would be nice to have more advice on domain controller restores.

We performed it in-house.

Try it first and see if it does what you want.

• 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 everyday.
• Replica server tests on the DR side are very easy because I just need to power on the server on from there.

After we started using Veeam, we transferred all our 30 virtual servers in seven hours to our disaster recovery side. 

Also, during our disaster recovery test w,e did not have any issues replicating servers.

It should support physical servers, and as far as I know, v9 will do this.

We had no issues deploying it.

It's been very stable.

We can scale as needed.

I wasn't involved in the initial setup, but I haven't heard that it wasn't anything by straightforward.

I would advise you to get it because some of the features are free.

Its backup capabilities and also day to day replication.

We wanted to replicate a very old database which is running on VM. We were looking for solution long time and finally using this product we are able to do it.

I think it's fantastic, so none.

2 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

5 out of 5.

5 out of 5.

No, this was our first.

Very straightforward.

In-house.

Yes, we evaluated SRM.

Like I previously mentioned, we are using a very old database and even that database company didn't provide support. I tried to replicate it over WAN, and now by using Veeam, it works great. It was running on my regional site which had standalone VM with local storage and that's why Veeam worked fine compare to SRM.

The product is really easy to use.

It has made the VM infrastructure easier to manage, as well as simplifying the backup and restore process.

The tape management is not really efficient and some other products are better. I know that backup on tape is not the the main target of Veeam but, it's important.

I've used it for two years.

Nothing serious.

Sometimes, the memory is not big enough, and I would guess that a leak might be present. Performing a monthly reboot solve this (at the same time as Windows updates).

No issues encountered.

It's good.

It's poor for certain issues (with the Veeam One product, the guys did not talk together and asked the same question several times). We had a loss of production time, and the answers they gave were not efficient.

It was simple and fast.

I implemented it myself.

I also looked at Avamar, Symanted and TSM which are better for tape management and data retention management, but expensive. Veeam however, is the easiest way to manage virtual infrastructure backup, and the cost is better, when compared with some other solutions.

Evaluate your needs before choosing a product. If tape management is required only, then Veeam is not the choice.

• Sure backup
• Synthetic backups

It drastically reduced the backup time window and improved data protection.

Better flexibility for scheduling jobs, specifically for the SQL hourly log backup.

I've used it for eight months.

Nothing major encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's better than others.

It's the best I've encountered.

We previously used virtual server infrastructure backup solution.

It was simple and straightforward.

We implemented it through a Veeam engineer, unfortunately the level of expertise was not the best.

We also looked at Nakivo.

It's the best solution for a VMware environment.

Exchange and File server backup are valuable features.

Versions of backup files helped us to recover files as per users requirement.

Virtual Environment

I've used it for seven years.

No, but deployment is bit complicated.

Having issues with the hardware.

Tape base backup and data is spread across the tapes.

2/10.

2/10.

We previously used the Windows backup solution and we changed to Tivoli for automated backups and multiple copies of backup sets to comply with central bank policy to keep the backup data offsite and out of the country.

Initial set up was bit complicated. Policy definition is not easy.

We used a vendor team whose expertise was 2/10.

It's not 100%.

No. We did not do an evaluation.

Good product but not it's suitable for a virtual environment.