We performed a comparison between Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas NetBackup based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup & Replication comes out on top in this comparison. According to its users, it is easier to set up and more user friendly than Veritas NetBackup.
"Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the recuperation of the weaker machines."
"I have found the backup call feature very good."
"They introduced a new feature called the Immutable Repository feature, which helps protect environments from malware attacks that target backup file extensions."
"We have evaluated other solutions but Veeam is the best for virtualization."
"It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues."
"The advantage of Veeam Backup and Replication is that it is very economical. The price is affordable and the cost benefit is good."
"Its ability to cover a large spectrum of products and operating systems is invaluable. We evaluated other products but always found certain limitations like some products had only intel-based virtualization, while others had power servers."
"The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions."
"We have an issue with the last version on the latest backup of the solution as it is not compatible with Sybase 16.5."
"The reporting is very good, with all of the details highlighted and very clear."
"It's durable — we achieve what we expect from it."
"The tool's information transfer and patching up is easy. The solution offers protection from ransomware which is also a valuable feature."
"It provides us with the versatility to back up everything we require which eliminates the need for a secondary backup solution."
"I like the virtual server backup."
"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."
"Although the solution offers documentation, it has it only in English, which doesn't help us much in Belarus."
"In the next release I would like to see a bit more intelligence as far as a solution or troubleshooting - to put it more on the level of resolution and not simply identifying there is a problem."
"The initial setup can get complex."
"The implementation of the features can be improved. Currently, there is no segregation of duty. Normally, any backup software or client service software is implemented in a way where one person is responsible for the implementation of the server, and one is responsible for the client, but Veeam Backup & Replication is not implemented in that way. Therefore, restores don't work like that. The backup guys have to do the restores, which is not a good thing. Its pricing should also be improved. It is quite expensive."
"I would like to see more broad support for other applications such as databases, or other operating systems."
"Limited support for environments other than VMware or Microsoft."
"The parallel backup process from the Veeam server to Veeam has some limitations. The number of parallel backups should be increased and the compressional is very low. Sometimes it is half or one-third, but other backup solutions' compression levels are very high."
"The implementation process could be simplified to make it quicker."
"There is a big change in Veritas. In the past, we could easily change servers or appliances and continue working by restoring the catalog. We could change servers from Linux to Linux or Linux to Solaris and perform catalog restores to continue working. But with the new version, we are forced to engage Veritas' professional services, which is too expensive."
"There have been issues with performance and some features."
"It's a little bit complex to manage."
"The solution costs too much."
"It would be helpful, in future releases, if the solution could add WORM (Write Once Read Many) support right within the product."
"Netbackup can backup MySQL via Oracle policy, to be honest, this is not completely native support and this method has a few limitations. In fact, you can buy from Veritas (or Zmanda) clients for MySQL or PostgerSQL from Zmanda to backup MySQL or PostgreSQL on Linux."
"We had some issues with the hardware backup appliance."
Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 111 reviews. Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup, Veritas Backup Exec and Dell NetWorker. See our Veeam Backup & Replication vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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