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.

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The product's most valuable feature is encryption. The backup software is easy to use.

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The solution is good for physical backups. 

Recovery via Active Directory is painless and much easier than the complicated setup procedures of other products. 

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It’s pretty standard. There is no significant difference for me.

We needed something that offered backups at a lower price, which this delivers.

The implementation is straightforward.

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We use the backup and restoration features. The usability and interface of the solution are good. It is an advantage to any infrastructure to get a backup. We can restore old backups, too.

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We rely heavily on the image-level backup functionality for simplified disaster recovery. Many of our clients have physical infrastructure, so this protection is very important to them. 

Taking an image-level backup and restoring it is very easy in Backup Exec, which helps us significantly. 

Additionally, we have virtual infrastructure, so restoring virtual machine systems from backups is also very easy. These two features are most crucial for us.

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The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors. View full review »

There is no need to choose which file, which directory, or which components are required to select for the backup. Once the solution is integrated with the Exchange, you just click Exchange to back up that file.

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I have found the overall features of the solution very good.

There is the option to backup to the cloud (we don't use it for now).

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The most important feature is the variety of backup applications it supports, including ERP systems and most other programs, such as Microsoft. It allows for simultaneous backups of multiple applications. The second advantage is the strong support provided. You can open tickets and receive prompt responses and assistance if any issues arise.

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Synthetic backup is valuable. It gives you the possibility to do a synthesized backup, which means that it combines a full backup and incremental backup data and gives it to you in one stream. So, you don't have to restore the full backup and then later go and restore the incremental backup. You can do that in one go. 

It has also got some backup lifecycle policies that allow you to do different things in one backup definition. So, in one backup definition, you are backing up data, copying it to another place, and probably creating an image of the data. You are doing multiple things in one backup configuration, which is very good because it simplifies the way administrators work.

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The disk-to-disk-to-tape backup feature is quite good, and BKF file locking is a very important and safe silent feature.

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The product's most valuable feature is scalability.

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We've used the solution for ten years, and everything has worked very well.

There are many settings, and after working on it for so long, we have a good understanding of the configurations that make sense. 

It's easy for us. It's like a legacy of predictability. We've used it for a long time.

The initial setup is easy.

It's stable.

The scalability is good. 

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We have never had any problem with storage and backups. It works very well and is a user-friendly solution.

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The product is good in a small environment when looking to backup on a tape.

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The one thing for the last 12 months which has been very good for Veritas was the instance-based license. This means that you're able to license per instance, not only per physical server. And also, the incremental backup which they introduced for virtual servers, where it makes it much quicker to restore, it just automatically is able to mount it back to the original backup. This makes it much quicker when you're doing the restore.

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Veritas is good for small environments.

It's a good product.

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I prefer to use a tape library and Veritas Backup Exec is fully compatible with different tape libraries. So I prefer this software.

Of course, all of the solutions are agent-based, but granular recovery, GTR, works well in Backup Exec. It was Symantec in the past. I can easily recover a user or a file. It mainly works directly to the original location, which is why I prefer to use it.

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It's user-friendly, and, except in the case of AIX, it supports a wide variety of platforms. This includes Windows, VMware, Linux, et cetera. It's okay as a product.

The solution is stable.

It is a scalable product.

The solution is easy to set up.

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It is a good overall suite of products.

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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.

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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. Sometimes with other software, a complete backup doesn't happen. 

With Veritas, the SLAs are pretty predictable and you can achieve complete backups easily. It offers duplication and compression and the safe sorting of information.

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The most valuable feature is the SLP, and using it has been very beneficial.

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It has good stability. Its interface is very good, responsive, and easily restores data. I use it for backup, encryption, and restore operations, and it works.

The possibility to back up and restore directly to/from tape is valuable.

I am using many agents from VM to LMDP. I also use an agent for SQL Server, which has advanced options because it is the Enterprise version.

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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.

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Compression is the most valuable feature.

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The most valuable features for me are the ease of restoring the data and the backup window.  

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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.

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One of the valuable features is the instant recovery for VMs. It reduces the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) drastically.

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Overall, it's a very good product.

The scalability was good.

The solution was stable and reliable. 

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

We have a backup operator and admin that can handle the back up of the files on the database. They're able to handle all aspects of the solution quite easily.

It's very good at allowing us to back up the servers.

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• Automation
• Restore

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I like that Backup Exec integrates with Microsoft Exchange. We can retrieve backups from the email boxes. 

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The solution is very stable.

The flexibility is very good. 

We find that the solution is very easy to use.

The initial setup is very easy. It doesn't take too long to deploy everything. 

The technical support is very helpful.

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It is a simple and flexible solution to work with.

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The automation, backup, database backup, and SQL module are valuable features.

It is quite stable as well.

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The ease-of-use in general is great.

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The interface for this solution is excellent, and it is easy to restore files compared to other solutions.

Encryption of data backup on tapes

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Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well.

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The most important feature is the ability to automatically backup and restore databases. In particular, with the advent of virtual machines running multiple versions of Database, being able to back them up and restore them from one single Dashboard is very important for disaster recovery and business efficiency.

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The most valuable feature is the backing up of our network servers.

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Veritas Backup Exec is easily managed.

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The most important feature of this product is the backup of any data, i.e. it could be databases or Z files, or anything.

For us, the main two features that we appreciate in this application are backup and restore. They are the main purposes for which we are using this application.

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The Exchange restore is the most valuable feature. The restore granularity that the product offers is great, right down to the individual emails.

It saves a ton of time and effort for the admins. There is far less frustration for the end user that equates to more time for admins for addressing more burning issues within their areas of expertise, thus, increasing the employee's productivity.

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The most valuable features of Veritas Backup Exec are the graphical interface, ease of management, and overall ease of use.

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This solution creates a differential backup to reduce storage requirements.

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

Veritas offers granular restore, which is an option that many other solutions do not have. It allows you to restore, for example, a single SharePoint document, rather than an entire site.

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The most valuable feature is the ability to back up IBM Power virtual servers. The functionality does not even exist in Veeam. 

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Backup Exec 2012 R2 is a very good product for the Windows file system and SQL backups. It is very user-friendly, but the next version Backup Exec 2014 that is released and the other next versions of Backup Exec product is not so friendly. The entire GUI has been changed and has changed multiple options as compared to Backup Exec 2012.

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I use this on a few of my servers. This does a great job with scheduling full backups and incremental backups. Support is good due to it being an enterprise product. View full review »

Its reliability and the fact that we have all the skills that we need for Veritas Backup Exec are the most valuable.

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This is a very flexible product, which allows you to back up not only the physical environment but also the cloud environment. It has a lot of system and application support.

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The most valuable features are that it is user-friendly. It also works nicely with Windows and Skype. In addition, there are nice backup features.

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It gives us a very good view of what's happening on the network. The security feature is very good as well. The network isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who work on it.

One improvement we've seen is the visualization of issues. If people are having issues on the network, we have to see what's happening right away. On the graphical side, we can see exactly where the issue is, and what port is affected. It's a lot easier for us to correct and to troubleshoot network issues now.

The interface continues to be very convenient and very straightforward. 

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It can support all of my backup, and all of my applications. It is able to backup everything.

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The most valuable feature is the compressor. The compression options are very good.

This solution has a simple dashboard.

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The interface easy to use and it is compatible with most backup devices.

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Excellent backup tool for doing disk to disk to tape. Support is great, even though you get through to Pune or Bangalore, their support skills are great. View full review »

The most valuable feature is the user-friendly interface.

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• Backup to Disk: It restore files very quickly.
• vSphere infrastructure backup option: Useful to keeps VMs on disk and it is done fast.

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It is very useful to be able to backup files and folders, for both Windows and Linux (physical and virtual servers), and put them into whatever kind of storage that you desire.

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I like the open file option, SQL agent, and the EM agent. It's a user friendly solution. 

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The backup feature was the most valuable for us. We used it on the exchange and SQL for mass files and folders. When we did backups, we did full backups as opposed to incremental ones. We found that for exchange, SQL and even for single files we were able to restore the resource process as well.

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• The backup solution comes in different versions to support different platforms. 
• Deployment is a pain, but once the setup is done, it works like a charm. 
• One of the most stable backup solutions.  

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The most valuable feature of Veritas Backup Exec is the ease of use.

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Protection plans can now be created by performing fewer steps, as compared to version 2010.Software deployment is straight forward. The homepage has been redesigned, which provides detailed statistics about backup operations, media, and job statuses.Remote agent installation is also simple; when you go to the Backup and Restore options it displays all the systems that have agents running.Backups can be restored or converted into virtual machines running in VMware or Hyper-V environments.Multiple systems can be placed in groups to share the backup strategies View full review »