Veritas Backup Exec Room for Improvement

AN
Chief Technology Officer at EITBS Ltd

I wish that they have an outlet for the other products from Veritas built into the Backup Exec product. For example, Backup Exec does only server backup. Currently, it is possible to read the backup of one other product, but if they can add more products so that you can just go into the dashboard of these other products by clicking on a button within the Backup Exec product, it would be great.

They should also increase the number of applications that it is backing up currently.

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NR
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The tape library management tool needs improvement. 

The solution is not good for virtual backups because antiviruses write on the disc in blocks and the high number of changes or flags increases backup times. Agents should not be installed on top of VM because they cause discs to get overloaded and that is costly. 

Managing collapsed discs should not have any effect on the size of backups. The solution should be able continue increments and manage restorations without errors similarly to how Veeam handles the process. Active Directory restorations should not require an agent or additional things.

The solution is too heavy and complex with 1,000 menus and options that make it messy rather than lightweight. 

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PA
System Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is currently missing the dynamic backup feature for virtual machines, which is available in NetWorker. I can create politics in NetWorker to add virtual machines with specific tags, but I cannot do this in Backup Exec, which is a minus for me. Currently, a user has to send a request to the Backup Administrator to add a machine to the backup, but I should be able to create rules to automatically add a new machine to the backup. This kind of functionality is very important in current times, especially when we are using cloud solutions.

I should be able to create more than one stream in a policy and specify how many streams I want to run in parallel in one policy. Currently, I have to manually create more policies to back up more than one virtual machine at the same time.

Their support can also be improved in terms of response time.

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Burak Pehlevan - PeerSpot reviewer
SaaS Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Other solutions have Kubernetes-specific solutions within them. This doesn’t. In the future, we may need the product to have that, however, in my environment, I don't have Kubernetes, so for my use, it is not necessary.

It may be useful if it was easier to access.

The reports could be made in an easier way.

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GC
Senior Manager at Datamatics Global Services Limited

Whenever a job fails, it would be a great improvement to be able to resume the job from the job got failed that feature. Suppose a job was started this morning and that it is going on while there are interruptions like network issues, server restart issues, server connectivity issues, services stopping, etc. For some reason, let's assume that the job failed or that it was mistakenly canceled by another person. It will be a great improvement if that failed job can be continued automatically or as a manual task. 

Exchange backup restoration takes a long time. Restoring a single email from the backup entire database is virtually occupies the entire system disk and it is huge pain. So, exchange email restoration should be simplified.

Some time no reason some backups are getting failed after certain percentage, if I run the job again manually one by one then it will run successfully from one particular server. 

Additional ransomware protection mechanisms could also be added.

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NT
Operations Manager at Cybernaptics

We need to have duplication and better compression. We don't really get that with Veritas. There's customer demand for it. 

We'd like to see some better synchronization between the office and other sites. There's room for improvement in off-site syncs. 

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PA
System Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have found the duplication to be very poor.

It is not clear how to automate processes using the command line interface.

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. As it is now, if I want to restore the same resource or the same system for testing then I have to create a job task from scratch. Having an automatic restore would save me time.

The problems I have had seem to be related to integrating the solution.

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Piyush Umap - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Engineer at Vintech Electronic Systems Pvt.Ltd.

From a licensing perspective, there's room for improvement. Previously, we had a license that could support both virtualization and databases within virtual machines. This meant a single license would cover both. 

Now, with the simplified license model, it only covers VMs. So, if there's one thing that could be definitely improved, it's the licensing model.

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OmobolajiOlaloku - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Veritas Backup Exec could improve the analytics. If there were some more detail in our scan reports it would be beneficial.

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Ramprasad Yalavarthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager System Engineer / Lead Solution Architect at DXC Technology

The solution can be improved by adding the ability to restore individual mailboxes. Currently, the solution does not have the capability to restore a single mailbox, so you lose a lot of time having to restore for example ten mailboxes just to recover one. 

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MS
System Admin at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees

It doesn't support the AIX platform.

I've had a little problem in the tape solution in the Backup Exec. When you use a tape solution, take a backup in the tape, not in the disc, and restore it, there is a little complexity. It's not really user-friendly in that aspect.

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SP
Senior System Engineer at Vintech Electronic Systems Pvt.Ltd

The console of Veritas Backup Exec is complex when compared to other software. The solution has a lot of tabs, so it is not neat and clean, causing confusion. The console dashboard needs to be simplified to help the customer, together with more training.

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MY
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Veritas Backup Exec should improve by having a user portal that customers can use.

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EC
Deputy Manager at DDS Informatica

The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers.

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Muhammad Shakeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Manage Service at IRSAA
Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced. View full review »
RJ
Solution Architect at IT Solution

Veritas Backup Exec's support services could be faster.

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