We performed a comparison between Quest Rapid Recovery and Veritas NetBackup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is its ability to back up a physical server to another physical or virtual server."
"It is very easy to use and very easy to manage. The fact that I can easily recover data is valuable. I don't use it much. The only way I have been using it is that sometimes, people ask to recover the data, which is a very easy process. It takes only a few minutes to get in and get the data from the server."
"The general backup for replication and virtual standby are the most valuable aspects. It does what it says it does. It's a decent tool for not a big budget."
"Not having to switch tapes is wonderful. It makes it so easy. We have an on-prem deployment that we also replicate to an offsite replication host. So by not having to deal with tapes and moving them off-site every day and every week, that's amazing ease of use for us."
"The local mount utility is most valuable. I do restores fairly regularly. Thankfully, I have not ever lost an entire server that I've had to resurrect, but I certainly have people who erroneously saved over a file or have deleted a file. So, we've done that quite a bit. We still have the DL4000 appliance, and we had, kind of, extrapolated that out over a five-year period. Now, we're in year six, so we had to add storage, which we did as a SAN next to DL4000, but prior to adding in that extra storage, we, here and there, would run into situations where for whatever reason, it would want to be pulling a new base image, and then we would run out of storage. So, we would utilize the archive feature and archive the old data that we want to hang on to, but we don't necessarily need it taking up current data storage. Being able to export out really old data is most valuable to us. Then, we just store that on a NAS that we keep in another building."
"The solution offers a 100% guarantee that if it's backed up you will be able to restore it onto any platform you want."
"The best feature of the solution is the user interface."
"DLO: Client for laptops."
"It's a good product, it does what we want it to do."
"Includes snapshots and multiple database agents."
"The troubleshooting is very good."
"Specific features that I could not do without are SLPs for replication and duplication control and AIR which makes DR easy."
"NetBackup is very easy for end-users."
"The features are good."
"This is a complete solution, everything is under one console."
"Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually."
"Rapid Recovery can only backup the machine or disc, but it can't back up from folders, and files, and things like that."
"For the most part, it is really good in terms of flexibility and choice of recovery methods. What we found lacking was being able to back up virtual volumes that are clustered. We ran out of luck there. There should be an option for backing up clustered virtual volumes."
"The terminology didn't seem easily available. When I go to the website, it is hard to search for things. You get all the articles, then you finally get the search button. They need the search at the top of the knowledge base. Then, on occasion, if you get an error message in the system, which is very important, it says, "Click here for more information," but I never get more information. The search engine doesn't find it or it is some weird error. It has never worked for me."
"When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved."
"The on-premises deployment model shouldn't have a maintenance fee. If there's going to be technical support, they need it to be free or it should be paid on upon adopting the solution."
"You can only take a snapshot from a virtual environment. It should have the ability to take snapshots from both a virtual and physical environment."
"It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam."
"In regards to protecting the physical servers with parameters, it's a long and difficult process."
"Support for the solution needs improvement."
"Maybe they could add more cloud solutions."
"The restore tool is not friendly to newcomers."
"The solution's technical support process should be improved."
"DDBoost."
"System administrators would be more efficient in NetBackup if the number of tools and command lines was reduced."
"Improvements can be made to the service by providing better and more competitive ratios on data backups. The functionality for backups is there with Veritas, but I would like to see them optimize and enhance this feature more."
Quest Rapid Recovery is ranked 26th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews while Veritas NetBackup is ranked 5th in Backup and Recovery with 112 reviews. Quest Rapid Recovery is rated 8.8, while Veritas NetBackup is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Quest Rapid Recovery writes "Allows us to do point-in-time recovery and mount the whole server and saves quite a bit of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas NetBackup writes "Efficient data recovery and replication features ". Quest Rapid Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest NetVault, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veritas NetBackup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Azure Backup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Quest Rapid Recovery vs. Veritas NetBackup report.
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