Veritas Backup Exec Pros and Cons

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 dashboard was good. I loved to see the maintenance dashboard every time I logged on. That was my first screen because it always gave me a reminder of how many days before my next renewal.

Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries.

The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow.

This solution is not complex and you do not have to be too technical to use it.

One nice feature with Backup Exec is mainly that disaster can happen to any server and the disk image can be destroyed very easily. It's also easy to fully email the backup image and restore the server.

The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent.

The product makes it easy to restore data.

I have not seen another backup solution as scalable as this one.

The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything.

Something within the software itself isn't quite right. There may be a bug or glitch. It will work fine for weeks and then all of a sudden it just tanks.

The cost is quite high. Along with the general costs, the supposed agents that you have to buy for the various options that you want to use ends up driving the costs higher as well.

A web console would be great because nowadays a lot of products are web-based and you can access the console from various environments. So I would recommend bringing this feature in the next solution.

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 price of this solution is very high.

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.

The licensing packet is confusing. If Veritas could do a better job of clarifying it, that would be helpful.

It could be improved in the area of reporting and ease-of-use.

The user interface needs to be improved.

The pricing of the solution is a bit high.