We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Veritas Backup Exec 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."The solution is very stable, especially if you are using a RAC environment."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"NetWorker is fast and reliable."
"The best feature of Dell EMC NetWorker is its wide spectrum of available plugins for each and every software that you can back up, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, AXI-based machines, or Dell-based machines. Whatever you want to back up, you can do it with Dell EMC NetWorker. It is a very solid backup software. It is the oldest backup software from EMC, and it comes from Dell EMC's legacy."
"Dell EMC NetWorker integrates well with our domain and the performance is quite good on-premise. We receive approximately 1 terabyte within one hour."
"The interface is user-friendly and can be used by the end-users."
"The backup capabilities and the automatization of the backup - along with the potential to make the back up on a virtual machine - are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"This solution is really the best in the market! After evaluating other solutions, we automatically decided to use this one."
"Compression is the most valuable feature."
"The solution was stable and reliable."
"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."
"It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"The implementation is straightforward."
"Veritas is simple and easy to deploy. In terms of the presentation and UI, they do their job well."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"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."
"The licensing rules are difficult to navigate and understand."
"Lacks a restore feature."
"The front end of the solution could improve. The user-friendliness is lacking."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
"There are too many reboots and the software requires constant updating."
"They need more support for image backups."
"Dell NetWorker could improve the GUI to include rack recovery."
"NetWorker sometimes has issues with the backup not starting and with connecting to the Oracle servers."
"The pricing is an area of improvement and the mode of marketing it."
"We need to have duplication and better compression."
"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 point 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 backup more than one virtual machine at the same time. Their support can also be improved in terms of response time."
"Expanding is difficult because if I want to add, for example, a terabyte of data, then I have to buy a disk shelf and it will cost me a lot."
"This solution does not support image-level backup of a physical server."
"The pricing of the solution is a bit high."
"The scalability could be improved even though the solution is targeted to small customers."
"It's not too stable for client-server architecture. Center Management is not so interactive, and then there are some issues regarding the complex licensing which needs improvement."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veeam Backup & Replication and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Dell NetWorker vs. Veritas Backup Exec report.
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